Retinal vascular changes in pre-diabetes and prehypertension: New findings and their research and clinical implications

Diabetes Care

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2708-2715

  Thanh, Tan Nguyen ^a   Jie, Jin Wang ^a,b   Tien, Yin Wong ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTENSION RETINOPATHY; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; REVIEW;

DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; PREDIABETIC STATE; RETINAL VESSELS;

EID: 35148869092     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 01495992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc07-0732     Document Type: Review

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