Can Ophthalmoscope Predict Silent Coronary Artery Disease in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus?
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...