Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
5899428 Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice 2014 4 Pages PDF
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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