학술논문
Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetic Retinopathy in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
Document Type
article
Author
Source
PLoS ONE, Vol 11, Iss 2, p e0149448 (2016)
Subject
Language
English
ISSN
1932-6203
Abstract
PURPOSE:To explore the relationship between chronic kidney disease (CKD) and diabetic retinopathy (DR) in a representative population of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) patients in Catalonia (Spain). METHODS:This was a population-based, cross-sectional study. A total of 28,344 patients diagnosed with DM2 who had recorded ophthalmologic and renal functional examinations were evaluated. Data were obtained from a primary healthcare electronic database of medical records. CKD was defined as an estimated glomerular filtration ratio (eGFR) of