Research Article
Clinical Characteristics of Patients with Newly Diagnosed Diabetic Macular Edema in Turkey: A Real-Life Registry Study—TURK-DEM
Table 1
Baseline characteristics of patients from Turkey with newly diagnosed diabetic macular edema.
| | Age, mean (SD; min–max) | 61.3 (9.9; 20–88) | | Sex, n (%) | | | Male | 522 (55.2) | | Female | 423 (44.8) | | Body mass index (kg/m2), mean (SD) | 28.9 (5.4) | | Systolic blood pressure (mmHg), mean (SD) | 132.3 (15.6) | | Diastolic blood pressure (mmHg), mean (SD) | 83.5 (11.6) | | Hypertension | | | Present | 521 (55.1) | | Undertreatmenta | 404 (77.5) | | On dialysis | 13 (5.7) | | Diabetes | | | Type 1 | 34 (3.6) | | Type 2 | 911 (96.4) | | Undertreatmentb | 619 (65.5) | | Diabetic foot disease | 44 (4.7) | | Time from onset of diabetes to DME diagnosis, n (%) | | | Less than 5 years | 113 (12.0) | | 5–9 years | 200 (21.2) | | 10–14 years | 279 (29.5) | | 15–19 years | 193 (20.4) | | 20 years + | 160 (16.9) | | Disciplines involved in diabetes follow-up care, n (%) | | | None (not followed up) | 165 (17.5) | | Endocrinology | 267 (28.3) | | Internal medicine | 444 (47.0) | | Family practice | 65 (6.9) | | Nephrology | 4 (0.4) | | Blood biochemistry () | | | Fasting blood glucose (mg/dL) | | | N | 206 | | Mean (SD) | 187.8 (81.9) | | HbA1c (%) | | | | N | 165 | | Mean (SD) | 8.8 (2.3) | | Total cholesterol (mg/dL) | | | N | 99 | | Mean (SD) | 203.7 (61.2) | | LDL (mg/dL) | | | N | 114 | | Mean (SD) | 124.5 (42.0) | | HDL (mg/dL) | | | N | 98 | | Mean (SD) | 47.7 (21.3) | | Triglyceride (mg/dL) | | | N | 113 | | Median (min–max) | 142 (43–880) | | Urea (mg/dL) | | | N | 127 | | Median (min–max) | 28.8 (4.4–178) | | Creatinine (mg/dL) | | | N | 140 | | Median (min–max) | 0.9 (0.4–7.0) | | Microalbuminuria (mg/dL) | | | N | 36 | | Median (min–max) | 25 (0–741) |
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Missing data for a27 and b130 patients.
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