Diabetic retinopathy is emerging as one of the important causes of blindness in both developing and developed countries. High hemoglobin A1c level, high 2-hr blood glucose level, low uric acid level and positivity for proteinuria were found to be significantly associated for the development diabetic retinopathy. The study was done on a total of 75 subjects. They were divided into 3 groups as: G...

This study was aimed to investigate the prevalence of diabetic retinopathy and its associated factors in rural Korean patients with type 2 diabetes. A population-based, cross-sectional diabetic retinopathy survey was conducted from 2005 to 2006 in 1,298 eligible participants aged over 40 yr with type 2 diabetes identified in a rural area of Chungju, Korea. Diabetic retinopathy was diagnosed by ...

BACKGROUND Uncontrolled studies have indicated appearance or progression of diabetic retinopathy in obese diabetic patients after bariatric surgery. The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to compare the rate of appearance, as well as progression or regression of diabetic retinopathy in studies comparing medical and surgical treatment of obese type 2 diabetes. METHODS AND FIND...

AIM To determine the role of serum insulin-like growth factor-1 levels in the development of retinopathy of prematurity, which is a major cause of childhood blindness worldwide. MATERIAL AND METHODS We prospectively studied newborn infants born at a postmenstrual age of <32 weeks and birth weights <1 500 gr, between January 1st, 2015, and December 31st, 2015. A total of 40 infants were enroll...

OBJECTIVE Diabetic nephropathy and retinopathy are two important microvascular diabetes complications with a high concordance rate in diabetic patients. A recent genome-wide association study in type 1 diabetic patients of European descent identified four loci to be associated with diabetic nephropathy. The aim of this study was to test the effects of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) from...

Abstract Diabetic retinopathy is a neurovascular complication of diabetes which an avoidable cause sight loss. Since the introduction screening for diabetic in UK along with improving treatments both and it no longer leading blindness UK. Screening detects at early stage when optimisation blood glucose, pressure cholesterol are effective reducing progression retinopathy. Once proliferative or m...

The onset of diabetic retinopathy correlates with the long-term quality of glycemic control. A 17-yr-old adolescent with type 1 diabetes presented unexpectedly with acute non-proliferative retinopathy despite good glycemic control. Two months later chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) was diagnosed. Chemotherapy was initiated and within a few weeks the patient was in full remission concerning leukemi...

Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is a complication of diabetes associated with irreversible loss of blindness. Various types of DR have been reported like mild non-proliferative retinopathy, moderate non-proliferative retinopathy, severe non-proliferative retinopathy and proliferative retinopathy. A number of signaling mechanisms like nuclear factor kappa-B (NF-κB), cyclo-oxygenase (COX), intracellula...

Diabetic retinopathy is one of the leading causes of blindness in working-age individuals. Diabetic patients with proteinuria or those on dialysis usually present severe forms of diabetic retinopathy, but the association of diabetic retinopathy with early stages of diabetic nephropathy has not been entirely established. A cross-sectional study was conducted on 1214 type 2 diabetic patients to d...

OBJECTIVE Homocysteine is an emerging risk factor for cardiovascular and nondiabetic ocular vaso-occlusive diseases. However, studies of the relationship between homocysteine and diabetic retinopathy have reported inconsistent results. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between plasma total homocysteine concentration and diabetic retinopathy. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHOD...