Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5899428 | Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice | 2014 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
A clinic-based retrospective longitudinal study conducted for 5.8 ± 2.5 years, including 383 (M/F 245/138) Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus showed that females exhibit a significantly higher prevalence of proliferative diabetic retinopathy (DR) at baseline and that female gender is an independent risk factor for the development of DR.
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Authors
A. Kajiwara, H. Miyagawa, J. Saruwatari, A. Kita, M. Sakata, Y. Kawata, K. Oniki, A. Yoshida, H. Jinnouchi, K. Nakagawa,