Association between Serum Vitamin D and Diabetic Retinopathy in Portuguese Patients with Type 1 Diabetes

Diabetic patients with proteinuria or those on dialysis usually present severe forms of diabetic retinopathy, but the association of diabetic retinopathy with early stages of

Our find- ings emphasize the need for good glycemic control in order to prevent or delay the onset of DR, since the most well-known risk factors for the development of this

The results of the present studies converge to indicate that mortality salience moderates the effect of intrinsic religiosity - the commitment to one’s religious faith based on

The severity of diabetic retinopathy in the studied group was influenced by factors such as duration of disease, type of dia- betes, good glycemic control, hematocrit and

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Decreased optical coherence tomography- measured pericentral retinal thickness in patients with diabetes mellitus type 1 with minimal diabetic retinopathy. &

Thus, in the present study, we sought to correlate serum levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D], the stable circulating form of the vitamin, with a marker of

age, gender, family history, stages of diabetic retinopathy, (2) history on the use of antidiabetic agents and concurrent medications for chronic illnesses (medications that