Abstract :
Purpose: To measure a correlation between serum lipids and the severity of diabetic retinopathy in patients reporting to a tertiary care diabetic and endocrinology center, in western Uttar Pradesh.
Method: A hospital-based, cross-sectional study conducted on 240 eyes of 120 diabetic patients presenting at our Institute of Ophthalmology. The ETDRS system was used to grade the severity of retinopathy and the serum lipid profile of each patient was procured. The data analysis was done with the help of SPSS version 16.0 using unpaired t-test, binary logistic regression analysis, one way analysis of variance (ANOVA) with Bonferroni post hoc tests.
Result: A significantly increased level of total cholesterol (p=0.02), TG (p=0.0001) and LDL (p=0.0001) was found among patients with DR than without DR. The total cholesterol was found to be significantly (p
Keyword :
Diabetic retinopathy, HDL, LDL, Lipids, TG.