Diabetic retinopathy

Diabetic retinopathy is a common and specific microvascular complication of diabetes, and remains the leading cause of preventable blindness in working-aged people. It is identified in a third of people with diabetes and associated with increased risk of life-threatening systemic vascular complicati...

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Published in:	The Lancet (British edition) Vol. 376; no. 9735; pp. 124 - 136
Main Authors:	Cheung, Ning, Mitchell, Paul, Wong, Tien Yin
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Kidlington Elsevier Ltd 10.07.2010 Elsevier Elsevier Limited
Subjects:	Angiogenesis Biological and medical sciences Blindness Blood pressure Cardiovascular diseases Clinical trials Coronary heart disease Diabetes Diabetes mellitus Diabetes. Impaired glucose tolerance Diabetic retinopathy Diabetic Retinopathy - diagnosis Diabetic Retinopathy - physiopathology Diabetic Retinopathy - therapy Edema Endocrine pancreas. Apud cells (diseases) Endocrinopathies Epidemiology Etiopathogenesis. Screening. Investigations. Target tissue resistance General aspects Glucose Heart diseases Humans Hypothyroidism Industrialized nations Internal Medicine Lasers Lipids Medical sciences Microvasculature Older people Ophthalmology Pregnancy Preservation Retina Retinopathies Retinopathy Risk Factors Rural areas Steroid hormones Stroke Studies Surgery Endocrinopathy Medicine Eye disease Retinopathy Diabetes mellitus
ISSN:	0140-6736, 1474-547X, 1474-547X
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