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Current epidemiology of diabetic retinopathy and diabetic macular edema.
Current diabetes reports - 1 Aug 2012
Ding Jie, Wong Tien Yin
Abstract excerpt
With increasing global prevalence of diabetes, diabetic retinopathy (DR) is set to be the principle cause of vision impairment in many countries. DR affects a third of people with diabetes and the prevalence increases with duration of diabetes, hyperglycemia, and hypertension-the major risk factors for the onset and progression of DR. There are now increasing data on the epidemiology of diabetic macular edema...
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