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Factors associated with diabetic nephropathy in subjects with proliferative retinopathy.
International urology and nephrology - 1 Feb 2012
Magri Caroline Jane, Calleja Neville, Buhagiar Gerald, Fava Stephen, Vassallo Josanne
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AIM: The purpose was to compare the phenotype of subjects with type 2 diabetes mellitus having both retinopathy and nephropathy with that of subjects having retinopathy but no nephropathy. METHODS: We recruited 196 subjects; 85 were normoalbuminuric (controls), whilst cases consisted of patients with micro- (n = 66) or macroalbuminuria (n = 45). Both groups underwent 24-h blood pressure (BP) monitoring and were...
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