ArticleEye (London, England)2019
Relationship between body fat and diabetic retinopathy in patients with type 2 diabetes: a nationwide survey in Korea.
Article in Eye (London, England), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
18 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 21 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- Obesity and risk of age-related eye diseases: a systematic review of prospective population-based studies.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2021Pooled it
- Waist Circumference and Body Mass Index Variability and Incident Diabetic Microvascular Complications: A Post Hoc Analysis of ACCORD Trial.Diabetes & metabolism journal · 2022Trial
- Assessment of Serum Lipocalin-2 in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients With and Without Retinopathy.Cureus · 2026Article
- Article
- Prevalence, incidence, and risk factors of diabetic retinopathy and macular edema in patients with early and late-onset type 2 diabetes mellitus.Journal of diabetes investigation · 2025Article
- The potential role of adipokines and hepatokines in age-related ocular diseases.Metabolism open · 2025Review
- Diabetic Macular Edema in the Western Part of Romania: Screening to Improve Patient Outcomes.Journal of personalized medicine · 2025Article
- Retrospective database study on risk factors for diabetic retinopathy and diabetic kidney disease in Japanese patients with diabetes mellitus.Journal of diabetes investigation · 2025Article
- Severity of diabetic retinopathy severity with renal function and body fat in type 2 diabetes mellitus: A hospital-based cross-sectional study in India.Bioinformation · 2025Article
- Type 2 diabetes: is obesity for diabetic retinopathy good or bad? A cross-sectional study.Nutrition & metabolism · 2024Article
- Diabetic Retinopathy Leading to Blindness- A Review.Current diabetes reviews · 2024Review
- Association of anthropometric parameters as a risk factor for development of diabetic retinopathy in patients with diabetes mellitus.Eye (London, England) · 2023Observational
- Association of Obesity Indices with Diabetic Kidney Disease and Diabetic Retinopathy in Type 2 Diabetes: A Real-World Study.Journal of diabetes research · 2023Article
- Risk factor analysis and clinical decision tree model construction for diabetic retinopathy in Western China.World journal of diabetes · 2022Article
- Incidence and risk factors of severe non-proliferative/proliferative diabetic retinopathy: More than a decade follow up in the Tehran Lipids and Glucose Study.Journal of diabetes investigation · 2022Article
- Higher Serum Uric Acid Levels Are Associated With an Increased Risk of Vision-Threatening Diabetic Retinopathy in Type 2 Diabetes Patients.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2021Observational
- Observational
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
purposeTo evaluate the association of body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, and body fat with diabetic retinopathy (DR) in Korean patients with type 2 diabetes.
methodsAmong the 1130 participants 19 years of age or older with type 2 diabetes enrolled in the nationwide survey, a total of 887 participants were included in the analyses after excluding patients with ungradable fundus images. The presence and severity of DR were graded with seven-field fundus photographs. The associations between DR and anthropometric parameters and total body fat, which was assessed by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry, were analysed using multivariate logistic regression models.
resultsPatients were divided into three groups according to severity of DR: no DR (n = 702, 79.1%), mild/moderate DR (n = 130, 14.7%), and vision-threatening DR (n = 55, 6.2%). In multivariate-adjusted analyses, higher BMI (adjusted odds ratio [aOR], 0.80; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.70-0.92; P = 0.001), larger waist circumference (aOR, 0.96; 95% CI, 0.91-1.00; P = 0.047), and higher total body fat (aOR, 0.86; 95% CI, 0.79-0.92; P < 0.001) were significantly associated with a lower risk of vision-threatening DR. In sex-stratified analyses, however, only total body fat in women showed a significant inverse association with the presence of DR (aOR, 0.93; 95% CI, 0.88-0.98; P < 0.001) and independently with the severity of DR (P for trend = 0.004).
conclusionIn Korean patients with type 2 diabetes, obese patients might be less likely to have vision-threatening DR. Total body fat in women appears to be inversely and independently associated with DR prevalence and progression.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.