Risk factors study of diabetic retinopathy in elderly diabetic patients / 中华老年医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the prevalence and risk factors of diabetic retinopathy(DR) in Chinese elderly diabetic patients. Methods One hundred and ninety patients with type 2 diabetic aged 60 years and over,including 93 males and 97 females were selected.The average age was 68.9 years and the average diabetic duration was 11.5 years.HbA1c,insulin,C-peptide and other clinical characteristics in all patients were tested.The retinopathy of the patients were examined by the retina-camera. Results There were 103 patients without deabetic retinopathy,59 patients carrying nonproliferative deabetic retinopathy and 28 patients carrying proliferative diabetic retinopathy.The above three groups had statistically different diabetic duration((121.1?93.2) vs(149.6?112.1) vs(182.2?83.5)months,P