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Gilchrist, FJ, Bright-Thomas, R, Webb, AK, Jones, AM and Rowe, R (2015) Diabetic retinopathy in patients who do not meet the diagnostic criteria for cystic fibrosis related diabetes. Practical Diabetes, 32 (9). 333-335a. ISSN 2047-2900
Full text not available from this repository.Abstract
The UK Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Trust guidelines state that the diagnosis of CF related diabetes (CFRD) should only be made after an oral glucose tolerance test in the diabetic range and hyperglycaemia on serial monitoring. We report three patients with CF who were known to have abnormal glucose tolerance but did not meet the diagnostic criteria for CFRD. As the patients were commenced on insulin they were referred for annual diabetic complication screening and all were diagnosed with diabetic retinopathy.
As these patients developed complications without being diagnosed with the causative disease, it questions the current diagnostic criteria for CFRD. This patient group also disproves the hypothesis that CFRD patients without fasting hyperglycaemia do not develop microvascular complications and suggests that, in some patients, such complications may develop earlier than previously thought.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | cystic fibrosis, cystic fibrosis related diabetes, diabetic retinopathy |
Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC648 Diseases of the endocrine glands. Clinical endocrinology. R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC660 Diabetes R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC705 Diseases of the respiratory system |
Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Institute for Science and Technology in Medicine |
Depositing User: | Symplectic |
Date Deposited: | 18 May 2017 13:23 |
Last Modified: | 18 Apr 2019 12:41 |
URI: | https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/id/eprint/3404 |