Relationship between retinopathy and asymptomatic atherosclerosis determined by measurement of carotid intima-media thickness in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

• Main Authors: İbrahim Kocaoğlu (Author), Emine Kocaoğlu (Author), Uğur Arslan (Author), Mustafa Mücahit Balcı (Author), Murat Vural (Author), Mehmet Numan Alp (Author), Sinan Aydoğdu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: KARE Publishing, 2016-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objective: Presence of diabetic retinopathy (DR) may be used as an early marker of atherosclerosis in type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) patients. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between the presence of DR and carotid intimamedia thickness (CIMT), which is an indicator of early atheroscl...