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SUBMITTER: Hou H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5916320 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hou Huiyuan H Shoji Takuhei T Zangwill Linda M LM Moghimi Sasan S Saunders Luke J LJ Hasenstab Kyle K Ghahari Elham E Manalastas Patricia Isabel C PIC Akagi Tadamichi T Christopher Mark M Penteado Rafaella C RC Weinreb Robert N RN
American journal of ophthalmology 20180213
<h4>Purpose</h4>To compare the rates of visual field (VF) loss and retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thinning in primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) patients with or without type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM).<h4>Design</h4>Cohort study.<h4>Methods</h4>A total of 197 eyes (55 eyes of 32 POAG patients with DM in POAG/DM group and 142 eyes of 111 age-matched POAG patients without DM in POAG/DM- group) were included from the Diagnostic Innovations in Glaucoma Study (DIGS). Type 2 DM participants were defi ...[more]