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Diabetic Retinopathy and Risk of Heart Failure

Ning Cheung, MBBS^_*, Jie J. Wang, PhD^_*,, Sophie L. Rogers, Mepi^_*, Frederick Brancati, MD, MPH, Ronald Klein, MD, MPH, A. Richey Sharrett, MD, DrPH, Tien Y. Wong, MD, PhD^_*,||,_* for the ARIC (Atherosclerosis Risk In Communities) Study Investigators

^_* Centre for Eye Research Australia, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Centre for Vision Research, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin
^|| Singapore Eye Research Institute, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore.

View larger version (24K): [in this window] [in a new window] [Download PPT slide]   Figure 1 Heart Failure Free Survival in Participants With and Without Diabetic Retinopathy Participants with diabetic retinopathy were more likely to develop incident heart failure than those without retinopathy in the Atherosclerosis Risk In Communities Study.