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Diabetes Care 30:e51 2007
DOI: 10.2337/dc07-0265
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Online Letters: Comments and Responses

Retinopathy Predicts Cardiovascular Mortality in Type 2 Diabetic Men and Women

Response to Juutilainen et al.

Giovanni Targher, MD1,2, Lorenzo Bertolini, MD1, Giacomo Zoppini, MD2, Giuseppe Lippi, MD3 and Luciano Zenari, MD1

1 Diabetes Unit, "Sacro Cuore" Hospital of Negrar, Negrar, Verona, Italy
2 Section of Endocrinology, Department of Biomedical and Surgical Sciences, University Hospital of Verona, Verona, Italy
3 Section of Clinical Chemistry, Department of Biomedical and Morphological Sciences, University Hospital of Verona, Verona, Italy

Address correspondence to Giovanni Targher, MD, Diabetes Unit, Ospedale "Sacro Cuore –don Calabria", Via Sempreboni, 5, 37024 Negrar (VR), Italy. E-mail: targher@sacrocuore.it

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We read with interest the recent article by Juutilainen et al. (1) showing that proliferative retinopathy in both sexes and nonproliferative retinopathy in women independently predict all-cause and cardiovascular disease (CVD)-associated death. The authors have cautiously concluded that the sex difference observed in the association between nonproliferative retinopathy and cardiovascular death needs to be confirmed in larger studies. Indeed, I think the relatively low frequency of retinopathy (23%) and the relatively high cut-off chosen for diagnosing hypertension (blood pressure ≥160/95 mmHg or treatment) could . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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