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Limited joint mobility and diabetic retinopathy demonstrated by fluorescein angiography

Abstract:

The association between limitation of finger joint mobility (LJM) and diabetic retinopathy demonstrable by fluorescein angiography was examined in 311 subjects aged 6-27 years. The relationship of these two complications was highly significant (P<0.0001). This was not the result of the effect of diabetes duration on both complications; interaction of LJM, retinopathy, and duration was not significant (P>0.3). The presence of LJM was predictive of associated retinopathy at the level of clinical recognition (more than ten microaneurysms); 43% of those with LJM and duration beyond 4 years had retinopathy while only 15% of this duration group without LJM had clinical retinopathy. © 1984 Springer-Verlag.