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Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=51176#.VFgxD2fHRK0 Author(s)   Naglaa Abdul-Maboud Soliman 1 , Wafaa Mostafa Abd-El Gawad 2* Affiliation(s) 1 Internal Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt . 2 Geriatrics and Gerontology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt . ABSTRACT Background & Aim: Diabetic retinopathy (DR) and Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) share similar pathophysiological background of vascular damage. So we aimed to study the relationship between DR and silent CAD in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Subject & Methods: A cross sectional study was performed on 40 patients w...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=50874#.VE8BmFfHRK0 Author(s)   Homeira Rashidi , Ali Kasiri , Seyed Mahmoud Latifi , Ferdos Zaman , Hajieh Shahbazian , Armaghan Moravej Aleali Affiliation(s) Health Research Institute, Diabetes Research Center, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran . ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to establish diabetic retinopathy correlation with several risk factors. A prospective study including 256 type II diabetic patients who referred to diabetes’s clinic was designed. All patients underwent physical & retina examination and then completed questionnaire including duration of DM, cardiovascular disea...