Natural history of corneal nerve morphology in mild neuropathy associated with type 1 diabetes: Development of a potential measure of diabetic peripheral neuropathy

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 7982-7990

  Dehghani, Cirous ^a   Pritchard, Nicola ^a   Edwards, Katie ^a   Vagenas, Dimitrios ^a   Russell, Anthony W ^b,c   Malik, Rayaz A ^d,e   Efron, Nathan ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Qatar)

Author keywords

Corneal confocal microscopy; Diabetes; Natural history

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COLD SENSATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEAL NERVE; CORNEAL NERVE BRANCH DENSITY; CORNEAL NERVE FIBER DENSITY; CORNEAL NERVE FIBER LENGTH; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE; NERVE PLEXUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SMOKE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VIBRATION SENSE; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CELL COUNT; CORNEA; CORNEA DISEASE; INNERVATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBER; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELL COUNT; CORNEA; CORNEAL DISEASES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84916899007     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.14-15605     Document Type: Article

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