Plasma homocysteine and its determinants in diabetic retinopathy [8]

Diabetes Care

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1026-1027

  Vaccaro, Olga ^a,c   Perna, Alessandra F ^b   Mancini, Francesco P ^a   Cuomo, Vincenzo ^a   Sacco, Maurizio ^a   Tufano, Antonella ^a   Rivellese, Angela A ^a   Ingrosso, Diego ^b   Riccardi, Gabriele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMOCYSTEINE;

BLOOD LEVEL; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; HUMAN; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OPHTHALMOSCOPY;

EID: 0033942052     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.23.7.1026     Document Type: Letter

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