Diabetic retinopathy and the risk of coronary heart disease: The atherosclerosis risk in communities study

Diabetes Care

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1742-1746

  Cheung, Ning ^a   Jie, Jin Wang ^a,b   Klein, Ronald ^c   Couper, David J ^d   Sharrett, A Richey ^e   Wong, Tien Y ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d IL   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; RATING SCALE;

AGED; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK;

EID: 34447135411     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 01495992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc07-0264     Document Type: Article

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