Fig. 1.

Relationship of age and the diabetic status with the telomere length. Panel A: relationship between age and the telomere length; as the age increases, the telomere length slowly decreases in diabetic patients (lower line) and nondiabetic patients (upper line). Panel B: relationship between type 2 diabetes mellitus and the telomere length; the telomere length was high in the nondiabetic (absent) subset, whereas it was low in the diabetic (present) group. DM, diabetes mellitus; T/S, telomeric product/single-copy gene product.