Method of assisting selection of therapeutic agent for type 2 diabetic patients, method of predicting effect of therapeutic agent, test method and therapeutic method

摘要

The present invention addresses the problem of providing a method for assisting in selection of a therapeutic drug for a type-2 diabetes patient, a method for predicting the effect of a therapeutic drug, an inspection method, and a treatment method. The inventors discovered that the effect of administering metformin is high when the selenoprotein P value is higher than a cutoff value in a specimen (particularly blood) originating from a type-2 diabetes patient, and thereby developed the present invention.