[To investigate which factors might protect against the development of retinopathy 40 insulin-dependent diabetics who had remained free from retinopathy despite diabetes of long duration (mean+/-1 SD 30+/-10 years) were compared with 40 patients who had background and 47 who had proliferative retinopathy (mean durations of disease 16+/-5 and 19+/-5 years respectively).]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE