medRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.16.20095307; this version posted May 22, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under a CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license . 1 Clinical study 2 3 Anagliptin monotherapy in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and high low-density 4 lipoprotein cholesterol reduces fasting plasma lathosterol level: a single-arm intervention 5 trial 6 7 Yuichi Ikegami, MD, PhDa, Ikuo Inoue, MD, PhDa,*, Yasuhiro Takenaka, PhDa,b, Daigo Saito, 8 MDa, Mitsuhiko Noda, MD, PhDa, Akira Shimada, MD, PhDa 9 10 aDepartment of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Saitama Medical University, Faculty of 11 Medicine, 38 Morohongo, Moroyamacho, Irumagun, Saitama 350-0495, Japan 12 bDepartment of Physiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Nippon Medical School, 1-25-16 13 Nezu, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-0031, Japan 14 15 *Corresponding author. Tel.: +81-49-276-1875; Fax: +81-49-276-1875; E-mail: 16
[email protected] 17 18 Key words: anagliptin; dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitor; low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; 19 lathosterol; glucagon-like peptide-1 20 21 Running Title: Reduction of lathosterol by anagliptin monotherapy 22 NOTE: This preprint reports new research that has not been certified by peer review and should not be used to guide clinical practice. 1 medRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.16.20095307; this version posted May 22, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.