Status:

COMPLETED

Advanced Glycation End Products Are Associated With Diabetic Macular Edema

Lead Sponsor:

Hacettepe University

Conditions:

Diabetic Macular Edema

Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

Diabetic macular edema can develop at all stages of diabetic retinopathy, causing visual impairment and blindness. Modern diets are high in advanced glycation end products (dAGEs), derived from proces...

Detailed Description

This was a cross-sectional study was carried out in the Hacettepe University Hospital, Department of Ophthalmology, between July 2018 and February 2019. While benefiting from the results of the previ...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Included from the study were those over the age of 18 years, with diagnosis of Type 2 DM.

Exclusion

  • Excluded from the study were those under the age of 18 years, with no diagnosis of Type 2 DM, without any anti-diabetic agent, with any disease other than DME and DR that may affect the retina, with any disease that may affect the retina for the control group, with corneal, lens or vitreous opacification preventing Optical coherence tomography (OCT) withdrawal, with any systemic disease other than DM and hypertension, with a history of eye surgery, and with blindness or infection in the eye, along with those recently diagnosed with diabetes (\<1 year) and those with special diets.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

July 7 2018

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

January 10 2019

Estimated Enrollment :

90 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT04468152

Start Date

July 7 2018

End Date

January 10 2019

Last Update

July 13 2020

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Hacettepe University Hospital Department of Ophthalmology Polyclinic

Ankara, Altındağ, Turkey (Türkiye), 06230