Nishant A Tambe
Department of Ophthalmology, Sree Balaji Medical College & Hospital Affiliated to Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IndiaPublications
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Research
Prevalence of Diabetic Retinopathy in Known Diabetics with Macrovascular Complications
Author(s): Nishant A Tambe*
Diabetic retinopathy, mainly a disorder of retinal vessels is influenced by the duration of the disease. From a total sample of 100 patients, a significant association was observed in the duration of diabetes and prevalence of diabetic retinopathy (P-value=0.000), as well as macrovascular complications of diabetes (P-value=0.001). This implies that with increasing duration of diabetes, the chances of prevalence of its complications increases. there was a significant association observed in duration of diabetes and macrovascular complications of diabetes in the group of 44 patients with diabetic retinopathy (P-value=0.049). There are studies suggesting diabetic retinopathy as a predictor of cardiovascular mortality in individuals both type 1 and type 2 DM. A positive association was not observed between the duration of diabetes and macrovascular complications of diabetes in the remaini.. Read More»