Diabetic retinopathy is associated with mortality and cardiovascular disease incidence : The EURODIAB prospective complications study

• Published in: Diabetes care Vol. 28; no. 6; pp. 1383 - 1389
• Main Authors: VAN HECKE, Manon V, DEKKER, Jacqueline M, STEHOUWER, Coen D. A, POLAK, Bettine C. P, FULLER, John H, SJOLIE, Anne Katrin, KOFINIS, Athanasios, ROTTIERS, Raoul, PORTA, Massimo, CHATURVEDI, Nish
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Alexandria, VA American Diabetes Association 01.06.2005
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Associated diseases and complications; Biological and medical sciences; Cardiovascular disease; Cardiovascular Diseases; Cardiovascular Diseases - epidemiology; Care and treatment; Case studies; Diabetes; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 - mortality; Diabetes. Impaired glucose tolerance; Diabetic Angiopathies; Diabetic Angiopathies - epidemiology; Diabetic retinopathy; Diabetic Retinopathy - mortality; Diabetics; disease incidence; Endocrine pancreas. Apud cells (diseases); Endocrinopathies; epidemiology; Europe; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Humans; Male; Medical sciences; Middle Aged; morbidity; Mortality; Ophthalmology; Patients; Proportional Hazards Models; prospective studies; Retina; Retinopathies; risk factors; Survival Analysis; Time Factors; Europe; Endocrinopathy; Human; Immunopathology; Retinopathy; Mortality; Autoimmune disease; Cardiovascular disease; Epidemiology; Incidence; Prospective; Eye disease; Type 1 diabetes; Complication; Public health

To study the relationship of nonproliferative and proliferative retinopathy with all-cause mortality and cardiovascular disease (CVD) incidence in type 1 diabetic patients and, additionally, the role of cardiovascular risk factors in these associations. This prospective study included 2,237 type 1 d...