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Limited joint mobility and diabetic retinopathy demonstrated by fluorescein angiography

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The association between limitation of finger joint mobility (LJM) and diabetic retinopathy demonstrable by fluorescein angiography was examined in 311 subjects aged 6–27 years. The relationship of these two complications was highly significant (P<0.0001). This was not the result of the effect of diabetes duration on both complications; interaction of LJM, retinopathy, and duration was not significant (P>0.3). The presence of LJM was predictive of associated retinopathy at the level of clinical recognition (more than ten microaneurysms); 43% of those with LJM and duration beyond 4 years had retinopathy while only 15% of this duration group without LJM had clinical retinopathy.

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida College of Medicine, Box J-296, 32610, Gainesville, FL, USA

    A. L. Rosenbloom

  2. Department of Pediatrics, University of South Florida College of Medicine, 33620, Tampa, FL, USA

    J. I. Malone

  3. Section of Biostatistics, Department of Statistics, University of Florida, 32610, Gainesville, FL, USA

    J. Yucha

  4. Department of Ophthalmology, University of South Florida College of Medicine, 33620, Tampa, FL, USA

    T. C. Van Cader

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Rosenbloom, A.L., Malone, J.I., Yucha, J. et al. Limited joint mobility and diabetic retinopathy demonstrated by fluorescein angiography. Eur J Pediatr 141, 163–164 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00443215

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