Materials and Methods Approval for the study was obtained from the hospital's ethical committee (according to the WMA Declaration of Helsinki). All patients received a thorough explanation of the study design and aims, and were provided with written informed consent. This is a cross sectional study conducted on 168 patients with Type II diabetes mellitus usually after 5 years of diagnosis. Patients
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