|Articles|June 27, 2011

Retinal thickness predicts nephropathy in long-duration diabetes

Retinal thickness measured by optical coherence tomography (OCT) may be a quantitative, noninvasive method for staging diabetic nephropathy and could serve as a biomarker for worsening disease, said investigators who followed a cohort of patients with long-duration type 1 diabetes.

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