Table 5 Prevalence of diabetic retinopathy by the International Clinical Diabetic Retinopathy guidelines according to the tertiles of urinary albumin excretion rate in normoalbuminuric people with type 2 DM
From: Predictors for diabetic retinopathy in normoalbuminuric people with type 2 diabetes mellitus
Urinary albumin excretion rate | P value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Tertile I(< 4.26 μg/min)n = 103 | Tertile II(4.26 -7.21 μg/min)n = 104 | Tertile III(> 7.21 μg/min)n = 103 | ||
No DR | 91 (88.3) | 88 (84.6) | 67 (65.0) | < 0.001 |
NPDR | 11 (10.7) | 14 (13.5) | 29 (28.2) | 0.002 |
NPDR, mild | 8 (7.8) | 8 (7.7) | 20 (19.4) | |
NPDR, moderate | 0 (0) | 3 (2.9) | 2 (1.9) | |
NPDR, severe | 3 (2.9) | 3 (2.9) | 7 (6.8) | |
PDR | 1 (1.0) | 2 (1.9) | 7 (6.8) | 0.027 |