Diabetes Care, Vol 20, Issue 5 773-777, Copyright © 1997 by American Diabetes Association

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Moderate-to-severe diabetic retinopathy is more prevalent in Mexico City than in San Antonio, Texas

ME Gonzalez Villalpando, C Gonzalez Villalpando, B Arredondo Perez, SV Martinez Diaz, B Mitchell, D Rivera Martinez, R Klein, SM Haffner and MP Stern
Centro de Estudios en Diabetes, Mexico. cgonzala@buzon.main.conacyt.mx

OBJECTIVE: To compare the prevalence of diabetic retinopathy (DR) between low-income Mexicans from Mexico City and Mexican-Americans from San Antonio, Texas. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: We designed a cross-sectional population-based study in low-income neighborhoods of Mexico City and San Antonio. The men and non-pregnant women included in the study had NIDDM and were between 35 and 64 years of age. Ophthalmologic evaluation was performed in 414 patients, 204 in San Antonio and 210 in Mexico City. Seven field standard stereophotographs of each eye were obtained, adapting the Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study protocol, and graded at the Fundus Photograph Reading Center of the University of Wisconsin. RESULTS: Early nonproliferative DR occurred in 37 (17.6%) and 39 (19.1%) patients in Mexico City and San Antonio, respectively. Moderate-to-severe nonproliferative DR occurred in 55 (26.2%) and 37 (18.1%) patients in Mexico City and San Antonio, respectively, and proliferative DR occurred in 12 (5.7%) and 7 (3.4%) patients in Mexico City and San Antonio, respectively. Using univariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis with DR as the dependent variable, age, duration of disease, and fasting glucose concentration were positively and significantly associated with retinopathy, whereas city, systolic blood pressure, and other selected metabolic variables were not. We defined moderate-to-severe DR to include the categories of moderate-to-severe nonproliferative and proliferative DR. For this combined category, Mexico City patients with diabetes had a significantly higher prevalence (P < 0.01) than those from San Antonio when analyzed by multiple logistic regression analysis (odds ratio for Mexico City/San Antonio, 1.72; 95% CI 1.10-2.70). CONCLUSIONS: Overall prevalence of DR is similar in both cities. However, moderate-to-severe DR is significantly higher in Mexico City.
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