{"id":6816,"date":"2022-09-13T11:00:10","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/vitamin-d-deficiency-increases-risk-of-retinopathy-in-patients-with-type-2-diabetes\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T11:00:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T11:00:13","slug":"vitamin-d-deficiency-increases-risk-of-retinopathy-in-patients-with-type-2-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/vitamin-d-deficiency-increases-risk-of-retinopathy-in-patients-with-type-2-diabetes\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitamin D deficiency increases risk of retinopathy in patients with type 2 diabetes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Summary<\/h3>\n<p>This study, conducted by Chinese researchers, investigated the relationship between vitamin D deficiency and diabetic retinopathy in patients with type 2 diabetes. In total, 1520 patients with type 2 diabetes were recruited and divided into three groups: no diabetic retinopathy and two groups based on their stage of the disease. Patients with the most advanced stage of the disease had significantly lower vitamin D concentrations compared with the other two groups. Also, a downward trend in vitamin D levels was observed in patients with increased stages of diabetic retinopathy. More advanced diabetic retinopathy was more frequent in patients with vitamin D deficiency than in those with normal vitamin D levels. In conclusion, vitamin D deficiency is an important risk factor for diabetic retinopathy. More details can be found in the study.<\/p>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<p>He et al.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #5aadcb;\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/25186653\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link to article &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary This study, conducted by Chinese researchers, investigated the relationship between vitamin D deficiency and diabetic retinopathy in patients with type 2 diabetes. In total, 1520 patients with type 2 diabetes were recruited and divided into three groups: no diabetic retinopathy and two groups based on their stage of the disease. Patients with the most&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[297],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7169,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6816\/revisions\/7169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}