Endocrine Abstracts

Goal: To study a frequency of occurrence and factors of progressive diabetic retinopathy (DR) in people with DM type 2 in Uzbekistan.Materials and study methods: Within the framework of WDF project ‘Prevention of blindness in people with diabetes mellitus in Uzbekistan’ granted to ‘UMID’ association in 2008, we carried out DR screening in people with DM type 2 in three pilot regions of Ferghana, Bukhara areas and the Republic of Karak...

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is one of the most frequent and serious complications of diabetes and the leading cause of blindness worldwide. Nevertheless, in Uzbekistan there is no precise statistical data on the prevalence of DR in patients with newly diagnosed diabetes mellitus.Purpose: To study the incidence of DR in newly diagnosed people with type 2 diabetes in Uzbekistan.Materials and methods: Within the framework of the grant &...

Purpose of the study: To carry out the comparative analysis of the prevalence of Type 2 Diabetes (T2DM) according to the screening and register data in Uzbekistan.Material and methods: Within the framework of WDF international project ‘Prevention of diabetes in rural population of Uzbekistan’, with the support of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the screening campaign was conducted in 6 rural regions to actively identify di...