Diabetic retinopathy as a predictor of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in subjects with type 2 diabetes.

ABSTRACT: This study aimed to evaluate the predictive value of diabetic retinopathy (DR) and its stages with the incidence of major cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) persons in our large primary healthcare database from Catalonia (Spain). A retrospective cohort study with pseudo-anonymized routinely collected health data from SIDIAP was conducted from 2008 to 2016. We calculated incidence rates of major cardiovascular events [coronary heart disease (CHD), stroke, or both-macrovascular events] and all-cause mortality for subjects with and without DR and for different stages of DR. The proportional hazards regression analysis was done to assess the probability of occurrence between DR and the study events. About 22,402 T2DM subjects with DR were identifie

SUBMITTER: Barrot J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9424917 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature