Khalid Amin, Muhammad Hanif Nagra, Masood Javed, Israr Hussain, Zafar Alam.
Diabetes Mellitus; incidence of Retinopathy.
Professional Med J Jan ;10(4):275-8.

This study was conducted in hundred patients with diabetes mellitus of either sex and between 10-90 years of age, presenting in diabetic clinic and medical unit -1 of Allied Hospital Faisalabad. The disease duration was 1 month to 22 years and out of these, 22 were taking insulin and 78 were on oral hypoglycemic agents. Among these patients, 42 had findings of diabetic retinopathy with overall incidence of 42%. Out of these 42 patients, 38 had background retinopathy while 4 had proliferate retinopathy with 24(51.14%) males and 18(31.03%) females. The incidence of retinopathy was higher in patients with 60 years of age or above and with diabetes of duration of 10 years or more. Out of 100 patients, 12(54.54%) and 30(38.46%) were found to have diabetic retinopathy respectively. From this study, it was concluded that the incidence of diabetic retinopathy in our population is quite high and it is increased with duration of the disease. Also that the incidence is higher in patients with IDDM as compared to NIDDM and is seen in both sexes and in all age groups.

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