Dry eye syndrome in subjects with diabetes and association with neuropathy

Diabetes Care

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2014, Pages e210-e211

  Achtsidis, Vasilis ^a   Eleftheriadou, Ioanna ^b   Kozanidou, Eleftheria ^c   Voumvourakis, Konstantine I ^a   Stamboulis, Eleftherios ^a   Theodosiadis, Panos G ^a   Tentolouris, Nicholas ^b  

^a NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c GENERAL HOSPITAL OF NIKEA   (Greece)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CORNEAL NERVE PLEXUS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRY EYE; EYELID REFLEX; HUMAN; LACRIMATION; LETTER; NERVE PLEXUS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; POLYNEUROPATHY; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTOR; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPLICATION; CORNEA; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; DRY EYE SYNDROMES; INCIDENCE; INNERVATION;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORNEA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; DRY EYE SYNDROMES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84908208124     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc14-0860     Document Type: Letter

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