Rationale and design of the AdRem study: Evaluating the effects of blood pressure lowering and intensive glucose control on vascular retinal disorders in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

Contemporary Clinical Trials

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 6-17

  Stolk, Ronald P ^a,b   Vingerling, Johannes R ^c   Cruickshank, J Kennedy ^d   Hughes, Alun D ^e   Stanton, Alice ^f   Juming, Lu ^g   Patel, Anushka ^h   Thom, Simon A McG ^e   Grobbee, Diederick E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^f BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^g CHINESE PLA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Hypertension; Retinal photography; Retinal vascular geometry; Retinopathy

Indexed keywords

ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; GLICLAZIDE; INDAPAMIDE; PERINDOPRIL;

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES CONTROL; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROANEURYSM; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETINAL VASCULAR DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CLINICAL TRIALS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; PHOTOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RETINAL VESSELS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 33751195532     PISSN: 15517144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2006.08.011     Document Type: Article

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