Abstract
Introduction
Chronic complication of diabetes mellitus affect many organ systems. Chronic hyperglycemia results in microvascular and macrovascular complications. .
Diabetic retinopathy is a specific marker of microvascular disease in type 2 diabetes. Furthermore, the fundus examination is inexpensive and is routinely performed for the screening of chronic diabetes complications. Therefore, it is worthwhile to comprehensively study the predictive role of Diabetic Retinopathy for duration for diabetes.
Therefore we conducted this study in order to examine the associations between retinal microvascular changes and duration of diabetes.
Aims and Objectives
To study correlation of diabetic retinopathy with duration of diabetes.
Materials and Methods
This prospective observational study was conducted on 100 patients with type 2 Diabetes mellitus with retinopathy attending OPD of MGM Hospital, Kamothe, Navi Mumbai for a period of Two year (January 2016- Oct 2017) to know the underlying disease whether it is new onset or old.
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Corresponding Author
Dr Hardik Patel (Resident)
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v6i12.146
