title: [Incidence of diabetic retinopathy in diabetic manifestation up to the 30th year of life].
abstract: Epidemiological studies of retinopathy on the basis of a relatively closed population of the inhabitants of the county of Neubrandenburg. Of the 521 diabetics with manifestational age of diabetes mellitus till the age of 30 years 415 patients were examined (transverse analysis). 34.5% of them had got a diabetic retinopathy. In our county the juvenile diabetes (average age less than or equal to 30 years) appears with a frequency of 0.114% among the population. Nearly 40% of this group of patients fell ill already before the 15th year of age. 70.6% of the patients with retinopathy suffered from a R I, 24.5% from a R II and 4.9% from a R III.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000453:epidemiology*; D003930:Diabetic Retinopathy / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D005859:Germany, East; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D012737:Sex Factors
vernacular_title: Untersuchung zur Häufigkeit der diabetischen Retinopathie bei Diabetesmanifestation bis zum 30. Lebensjahr.