Diabetes, Vol 26, Issue 1 46-49, Copyright © 1977 by American Diabetes Association
Cigarette smoking and diabetic retinopathy
ME Paetkau, TA Boyd, B Winship and M Grace
A sample of 181 diabetics with diabetic retinopathy was statistically investigated with regard to association of smoking with proliferative retinopathy. The numbers of patients with proliferative retinopathy rose with increasing tobacco consumption. In non-smokers no association existed between diabetes duration and proliferative retinopathy, but in smokers the number with proliferative retinopathy rose with increasing diabetes duration.
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