[Diabetic retinopathy: medical-legal implications and statistical assessment of 341 type 1 and 2 diabetic patients].
As a result of its asymptomatic nature and its aetiopathogenesis, still unclear in its multifactorial complexity, DR-related blindness has a growing socioeconomic impact in industrialized countries. In this study, the authors performed a statistical analysis on a group of 341 type 1 and type 2 diabetic patients with special consideration to the medico-legal implications of this serious ocular disease.
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Istituto di Oftalmologia, Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Roma, Italia. crigiust@tin.it
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D000328:Adult; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000150:complications*; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000150:complications*; D003930:Diabetic Retinopathy / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016365:Liability, Legal; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies