title: Association of retinopathy and intima media thickness of common carotid artery in type 2 diabetic patients.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  This study was carried out in order to evaluate the relationship between retinopathy and carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT).
  
  
  METHODS
  In a cross-sectional study, 154 diabetic patients who had a history of diabetic disease were evaluated in two equal groups of 77 patients with and without retinopathy, respectively. CIMT was evaluated in all of the patients.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Mean age of the patients was 59.65 ± 9.37 years. Mean CIMT of all patients was 0.84 ± 0.18. CIMT of patients with retinopathy was significantly greater than patients without retinopathy (P < 0.001). CIMT also correlated with age, duration of diabetes, systolic blood pressure, blood urea nitrogen, and serum creatinine.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  CIMT may be used as a simple, available and noninvasive method for screening of macro and microvascular complication of diabetic patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nephrology, Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences, Shahrekord, Iran.
authors.forename: Ali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Momeni
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences, Shahrekord, Iran.
authors.forename: Mohamad Ali
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Dyani
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences, Shahrekord, Iran.
authors.forename: Elnaz
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ebrahimi
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology, Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences, Shahrekord, Iran.
authors.forename: Morteza
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sedehi
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophtalmology, Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences, Shahrekord, Iran.
authors.forename: Afsaneh
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Naderi
keywords: Common carotid artery; diabetic retinopathy; intima-media thickness; sonography