Does neuronal damage precede vascular damage in subjects with type 2 diabetes mellitus and having no clinical diabetic retinopathy?

Ophthalmic Research

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 202-207

  Verma, Aditya ^a   Raman, Rajiv ^a   Vaitheeswaran, K ^b   Pal, Swakshyar Saumya ^a   Laxmi, Gella ^c   Gupta, Muneeswar ^c   Shekar, S Chandra ^c   Sharma, Tarun ^a  

^a VISION RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (India)

^b Sankara Nethralaya ^*  (India)

^c SANKARA NETHRALAYA   (India)

Author keywords

Diabetic retinopathy; Ophthalmoscopy; Optical coherence tomography

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DISEASE DURATION; EYE FUNDUS; FEMALE; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN CENTRAL FOVEAL THICKNESS; MEAN FOVEAL PHOTORECEPTOR LAYER THICKNESS; MEAN FOVEAL RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIAL LAYER THICKNESS; MEAN FOVEAL SENSITIVITY; MEAN RETINAL NERVE FIBER LAYER THICKNESS; MEAN RETINAL SENSITIVITY; MEAN RETINAL THICKNESS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OPTIC NERVE INJURY; PERIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

ADULT; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RETINAL VESSELS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL FIELD TESTS;

EID: 83455258151     PISSN: 00303747     EISSN: 14230259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000333220     Document Type: Article

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