Diabetic retinopathy is a common and potentially devastating microvascular complication in diabetes and is a leading cause of acquired blindness among the people of occupational age. However, current therapeutic options for the treatment of sight-threatening proliferative diabetic retinopathy such as photocoagulation and vitrectomy are limited by considerable side effects and far from satisfact...

OBJECTIVE Diabetic retinopathy affects >60% of people with type 2 diabetes during the first 2 decades of the disease and is ameliorated by good glycemic control. This study tested whether intensive diabetes case management could prevent or delay diabetic retinopathy in patients with established type 2 diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS This study was part of a randomized, controlled clinic...

Background: Chronic DM sequelae include microvascular complications like retinopathy, nephropathy, and neuropathy as well macrovascular concerns including coronary artery disease, cerebrovascular peripheral vascular disease. The most frequent long-term consequence of diabetes mellitus a major contributor to vision impairment blindness is diabetic which also potentially preventable. In this stud...

OBJECTIVE To assess racial differences in risk of developing retinopathy among individuals with type 2 diabetes, after taking into account differences in the distribution of risk factors for retinopathy. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS The participants were 105 individuals with type 2 diabetes, aged 40-69 years, who had no evidence of retinopathy at the time of a diabetic eye disease screening pr...

AIM To describe the design and preliminary results of the hospital based epidemiological study for diabetic retinopathy(HBESDR), an ongoing epidemiological study to estimate the prevalence of diabetic retinopathy(DR) and to elucidate the clinical, anthropometric, biochemical and any other risk factors associated with diabetic retinopathy. METHODS Totally 2000 diabetes will be recruited from t...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence and pattern of diabetic retinopathy in newly diagnosed black African patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and the associated risk factors. DESIGN Cross-sectional hospital-based study. SETTING Eye clinic of Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya. SUBJECTS Africans aged 20 years and above with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus of up to 12 m...

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the number of teeth and diabetic retinopathy among Korean population.This was a retrospective analysis using data of total 45,811 individuals who participated in the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES) 2008 to 2012. Among these, 2593 (5.7%) participants were identified as having type 2 diabetes mellit...

INTRODUCTION diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of blindness of working-age patients in the urban areas. OBJECTIVE to find out the association between diabetic retinopathy and serum lipoproteins in patients with diabetes mellitus MATERIALS AND METHODS a community-based cross-sectional study involving 100 subjects with type II diabetes living in the cities of Kathmandu, Bhaktapur and ...

INTRODUCTION Retinopathy and nephropathy are long-term diabetes complications which are associated together. Renal dysfunction is a risk factor for progression and deterioration of diabetic retinopathy. Diabetes causes damage to the small blood vessels in the retina and kidney which eventually resulted in diabetic nephropathy, renal failure and blindness. Due to the high cost for treating of th...

background: type 2 diabetes is a common disorder recognized as a major health problem in iran. diabetes is a major source of morbidity, mortality and economic cost to society. diabetic patients are at risk of experiencing macrovascular and microvascular complications of diabetes. the aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of type 2 diabetes complications and their contributing factors. ...