Nephropathy and retinopathy in type 2 diabetic patients living at moderately high altitude and sea level

Renal Failure

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 67-71

  Sayarlioglu, Hayriye ^a   Erkoc, Reha ^a   Dogan, Ekrem ^a   Topal, Cevat ^a   Algun, Ekrem ^a   Erem, Cihangir ^b   Atmaca, Hulusi ^c   Kocak, Erdem ^c   Yilmaz, Rustu ^b   Erdol, Hidayet ^b   Cinal, Adnan ^a  

^a YUZUNCU YIL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c ZONGULDAK KARAELMAS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Diabetes mellitus; Diabetic nephropathy; High altitude; Proteinuria; Retinopathy

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN;

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GENDER; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; SEA LEVEL; SMOKING;

ADULT; AGED; ALTITUDE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHIES; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 19944432206     PISSN: 0886022X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/JDI-42794     Document Type: Article

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