PURPOSE To determine associations between retinopathy status and detailed serum lipoprotein subclass profiles in the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial/Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications Study (DCCT/EDIC) cohort. METHODS Persons with type 1 diabetes (440 women, 548 men) from the DCCT/EDIC cohort were studied. Retinopathy was characterized by Early Treatment Diabeti...

BACKGROUND Sub-Saharan Africa faces an epidemic of diabetes. Diabetes causes significant morbidity including visual loss from diabetic retinopathy, which is largely preventable. In this resource-poor setting, health systems are poorly organized to deliver chronic care with multiple system involvement. The specific skills and resources needed to manage diabetic retinopathy are scarce. The costs ...

Diabetic retinopathy is a common microvascular complication of diabetes mellitus and one the leading causes acquired blindness. Microalbuminuria reflects pathophysiological state vascular dysfunction organ damage. It noticed that rise in urinary albumin excretion seen early phase diabetic retinopathy. The concordance microalbuminuria has been well reported type 1 diabetes; however, for 2 diabet...

Objectives To determine the incidence of any and referable diabeticretinopathy in people with type 2 diabetes mellitus attending an annualscreening service for retinopathy and whose first screening episodeindicated no evidence of retinopathy.Design Retrospective four year analysis.Setting Screenings at the community based Diabetic RetinopathyScreening Service for Wal...

OBJECTIVE The Wisconsin Diabetes Registry Study (WDRS) cohort consisted of patients diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in the same geographic region as, but 8-34 years later than the Wisconsin Epidemiologic Study of Diabetic Retinopathy (WESDR) cohort, providing a unique opportunity to assess changes in complications. We estimated the current prevalence and severity of diabetic retinopathy at 20 ye...

BACKGROUND Type 2 diabetes mellitus is an increasingly prevalent presentation in Australian general practice, where most patients receive their preventive care and management. OBJECTIVE In this article we discuss the relevant issues for clinicians and the screening recommendations for diabetic and hypertensive retinopathy. DISCUSSION Screening for diabetic retinopathy is a crucial component...

Background: Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder of multiple etiologies characterized by chronic hyperglycemia with disturbances of carbohydrate, fat and protein metabolism resulting from defects in insulin secretion, insulin action, or both. Diabetes mellitus is associated with microvascular (i.e. retinal, renal, possibly neuropathic) and macrovascular (i.e. coronary, peripheral vascular)...

This study was performed to identify factors associated with screening for diabetic retinopathy and nephropathy. Data from the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey between 2007 and 2009 were analyzed. Of 24,871 participants, 1,288 patients diagnosed with diabetes at ≥30 years of age were included. 36.3% received screening for diabetic retinopathy, and 40.5% received screening...

dear editor: thank you for your letter ref. no 2003-2 dated 7 november 2010 regarding the comments of an ophthalmologist from thailand named professor viroj wiwan on my article titled “evaluation of contrast sensitivity, color vision and visual acuity in patients with and without diabetes”. he has suggested that the combination of existing tests may be a good way to increase the sensitivity of ...

Background: One of the important complications of diabetes is diabetic-foot-ulcer, also reported in Saudi Arabia, like other countries. Similarly, the complications, like retinopathy and nephropathy are also occurring in diabetic patients of this region. Apart from the care and monitoring of these patients, it is important to find out association between these complications and their relation w...