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Abstract
This work aimed at studying the most probable medical risk factors that may affect development of diabetic retinopathy (DR) in the main classes of diabetic patients; the insulin - dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) and the non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) patients.
The study included 90 patients who were divided into 3 groups:
of 30 IDDM patients will DR, either of background
(BDR) type or proliferative (PDR) type.
[jp JJ of 40 NIDDM patients with DRz also either of BDR, preproliferative (PPDR); or PDR types.
iilrcrii vp of 10 IDDM patients and 10 NIDDM patients without DR, or with minimal changes in the retina, as almost always all diabetics would show some changes after 10 years of diabetic state.
By analysing the history, clinical examination data, and iical immunologic & genetic investigations for all these
s, the following observations were found:
(1) Sex of the patient was found to be importance as a risk factor for DR being male predominance in IDDM group
and female predominance in NIDDM group.
(2) Age at examination of the patients was found to be of high significance in both groups; IDDM and NIDDM. But this
significance was due to comparing IDDM group with