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Is pancreatic steatosis associated with diabetic retinopathy in non-obese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus?
Is pancreatic steatosis associated with diabetic retinopathy in non-obese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus?
Pancreatic steatosis is significantly associated with the presence of diabetic retinopathy in non-obese patients with type 2 diabetes.
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In this study, pancreatic steatosis was significantly associated with DR in non-obese patients with T2DM. Further studies are necessary to clarify the causal relationship between pancreatic steatosis and the development of DR.
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Pancreatic steatosis should not yet inform retinopathy screening in non-obese T2DM; leaves open need for prospective validation.
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Jeong et al. (2018) studied this question.
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