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Risk – Complications and Comorbidities

Cheng YJ, Gregg EW, Geiss LS et al.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.

 Diabetes Care 2009;32:2027–32.

[2] A systematic meta-analysis of genetic association studies for diabetic retinopathy.

Abhary S, Hewitt AW, Burdon KP et al.

Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA, Australia.

 Diabetes 2009;58:2137–47.

Editor’s note: The diagnosis of type 2 diabetes is typically based on the perception of risk for microvascular complications, predominantly retinopathy. It is generally perceived that the risk of retinopathy involves a combination of glycemic experience and genetic predisposition. These two recently published articles add interesting insight to this debate.

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