Posted in Volume 16 - Number 1 Suppl
AFTAB HUSSAIN SHAH, PARTAB RAI, AZIZULLAH JALBANI, IMDAD ALI ANSARI, KOURO MAL GURBAKHSHANI, BASHIR AHMED SHAIKH
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PURPOSE OF STUDY: To determine the risk factors of diabetic retinopathy in diabetes Mellitus.
DESIGN OF STUDY: Randomized Hospital based Prospective study
PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY: Medicine Department, Chandka Medical College Hospital Larkana. From January 2007 to June 2007
PATIENTS AND METHODS: Total 452 cases were picked up from medical out patient department. 408 (90.26%) cases were known diabetic and 44 (9.73%) were new cases. The relevant investigations such as Blood Sugar Fasting and Random, HBA1c, serum cholesterol, urine for proteins and electrocardiogram were performed. All the patients were referred to ophthalmology department for ophthalmoscopy and retinal photograph.
RESULTS: There were 452 cases in this study, 288 (63.71%) were male and 164 (36.28%) female with age range 18 years to 73 years. Among the 452 diabetic patients 128 (28.6%) patients had diabetic retinopathy. In 192 patients with high HBA1c, 76 patients had retinopathy. The 100 patients were hypertensive, 32 patients had retinopathy
CONCLUSION: The diabetic retinopathy is strongly associated with the duration of diabetes, hyperglycaemia and hypertension.
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