Abstract:Objective To discuss whether within-visit blood pressure variability (BPV) increases the risk of diabetic retinopathy (DR) after adjusting for the conventional metabolic risk factors and to evaluate the independent impact of BPV to DR in diabetic patients.
Methods The study featured 625 patients with T2DM based on physical and biochemical tests. Among them, 66 patients had DR, and 66 HbA1c matched subjects without the condition (NDR group) were therefore handpicked from the remaining 559 participants in a rati… Show more
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