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Body mass index (BMI) is an established risk factor for diabetes. However, the association between BMI and diabetic retinopathy (DR) has been inconclusive. We aimed to assess the association between BMI and DR in a large population-based sample of multi-ethnic Asian adults in Singapore. We examined 2,278 adults aged ≥40 years with diabetes who participated in three population-based studies conducted...
Please cite this paper as: Shankar, Sabanayagam, Klein and Klein (2011). Retinal Microvascular Changes and the Risk of Developing Obesity: Population‐based Cohort Study. Microcirculation18(8), 655–662.
AbstractBackground: Recent studies have hypothesized that endothelial and microvascular dysfunction may play a role in the development of obesity. Previous studies have shown that retinal microvascular...
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