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ArticleAntioxidants (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Low Levels of Vitamin C during Pregnancy; a Risk Marker of Progression of Diabetic Retinopathy in Type 1 Diabetic Women?

Bente Juhl, Flemming Klein, Toke Bek, Line Petersen

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Article in Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Bente JuhlAarhus Speciallaege Clinic, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-9106-5672
Flemming KleinAarhus Speciallaege Clinic, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark.ORCID 0009-0003-2848-0966
Toke BekDepartment of Ophthalmology, Aarhus University Hospital, 8200 Aarhus, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-0409-2534
Line PetersenDepartment of Ophthalmology, Aarhus University Hospital, 8200 Aarhus, Denmark.
Aarhus University Hospital · DK

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Abstract

Pregnancy is a risk factor for the development or aggravation of diabetic retinopathy. Here, we suggest a relationship between plasma vitamin C (vitC) status during pregnancy and into postpartum in type 1 diabetes and the possible progression of diabetic retinopathy based on data of 29 women. VitC was measured in first, second, and third trimesters and three months postpartum. The women had visual acuity testing and fundus photography performed at least twice during pregnancy and onto four months after birth. An overall retinopathy grade was assigned on a scale from 0 (no retinopathy) to four according to the International Clinical Diabetic Retinopathy scale. At baseline in 1st trimester, 12 women had no retinopathy; seventeen women had retinopathy in grade 1-3. The retinopathy grade increased in nine women; remained unchanged in 17 women, and improved in three women. No women had or developed proliferative retinopathy (grade 4). The level of vitC in 1st trimester predicted the possible progression of retinopathy-the lower the vitC, the more probable the progression (

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ascorbic acidcohort studyNOpregnancyretinopathytype 1 diabetesVEGFvitamin C

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