Global Prevalence and Major Risk Factors of Diabetic Retinopathy
Longer diabetes duration and poorer glycemic and blood pressure control are strongly associated with DR, and these data highlight the substantial worldwide public health burden of DR and the importance of modifiable risk factors in its occurrence.
Treatment of hypertension in patients 80 years of age or older.
- N. Beckett, R. Peters, C. Bulpitt
- 1 May 2008
Medicine
New England Journal of Medicine
The results provide evidence that antihypertensive treatment with indapamide (sustained release), with or without perindopril, in persons 80 years of age or older is beneficial.
Diabetes mellitus, fasting glucose, and risk of cause-specific death.
- Sreenivasa Rao Kondapally Seshasai, S. Kaptoge, J. Danesh
- 3 March 2011
Medicine
New England Journal of Medicine
In addition to vascular disease, diabetes is associated with substantial premature death from several cancers, infectious diseases, external causes, intentional self-harm, and degenerative disorders, independent of several major risk factors.
Clinical risk factors for age-related macular degeneration: a systematic review and meta-analysis
- U. Chakravarthy, T. Wong, P. Mitchell
- 13 December 2010
Medicine
BMC Ophthalmology
Increasing age, current cigarette smoking, previous cataract surgery, and a family history of AMD showed strong and consistent associations with late AMD.
Randomised double-blind comparison of placebo and active treatment for older patients with isolated systolic hypertension
- J. Staessen, R. Fagard, A. Zanchetti
- 13 September 1997
Medicine
The Lancet
Risk thresholds for alcohol consumption: combined analysis of individual-participant data for 599 912 current drinkers in 83 prospective studies
- A. Wood, S. Kaptoge, J. Danesh
- 14 April 2018
Medicine
The Lancet
Effects of Calcium-Channel Blockade in Older Patients with Diabetes and Systolic Hypertension
- J. Tuomilehto, D. RastenytÄ—, R. Fagard
- 4 March 1999
Medicine
Antihypertensive treatment with the calcium-channel blocker nitrendipine reduced the risk of cardiovascular events in diabetic and nondiabetic patients and was compared with placebo in this post hoc analysis.
Weight, shape, and mortality risk in older persons: elevated waist-hip ratio, not high body mass index, is associated with a greater risk of death.
- Gill M. Price, R. Uauy, E. Breeze, C. Bulpitt, A. Fletcher
- 1 August 2006
Medicine
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Current guidelines for BMI-based risk categories overestimate risks due to excess weight in persons aged >/=75 y and increased mortality risk is more clearly indicated for relative abdominal obesity as measured by high WHR.
Randomised double-blind comparison of placebo and active treatment for older patients with isolated systolic hypertension. The Systolic Hypertension in Europe (Syst-Eur) Trial Investigators.
- J. Staessen, R. Fagard, A. Zanchetti
- 1997
Medicine
The Lancet
Among elderly patients with isolated systolic hypertension, antihypertensive drug treatment starting with nitrendipine reduces the rate of cardiovascular complications and may prevent 29 strokes or 53 major cardiovascular endpoints.
Prevalence of age-related maculopathy in older Europeans: the European Eye Study (EUREYE).
- C. Augood, J. Vingerling, A. Fletcher
- 1 April 2006
Medicine
A M A Archives of Ophthalmology
Age-specific prevalences of age-related maculopathy in the European Eye Study (EUREYE) are similar to other population-based studies in Western populations.
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