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Year : 2014 | Volume
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Relationship between type 2 diabetic retinopathy and periodontal disease in Iranian adults
Ahmad Ahmadzadeh Amiri1, Avideh Maboudi2, Adele Bahar3, Asadollah Farokhfar4, Fatemeh Daneshvar5, Hamid Reza Khoshgoeian6, Mehdi Nasohi7, Alireza Khalilian8
1 Bu Ali-Sina Clinical Research Development Unit; Diabetes Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Mazandaran, Iran 2 Department of Periodontics, Dental Faculty, Diabetes Research Center, Mazandaran, Iran 3 Diabetes Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Mazandaran, Iran 4 Bu Ali-Sina Clinical Research Development Unit, Mazandaran, Iran 5 Research Committee, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences and Health Services, Mazandaran, Iran 6 Department of Dentistry, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Mazandaran, Iran 7 Student Research Committee, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Mazandaran, Iran 8 Department of Biostatistics, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences and Health Services, Sari, Iran
Date of Web Publication | 22-Apr-2014 |
Correspondence Address: Avideh Maboudi Department of Periodontics, Dental Faculty, Diabetes Research Center, Mazandaran Iran
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None  | Check |

How to cite this article: Amiri AA, Maboudi A, Bahar A, Farokhfar A, Daneshvar F, Khoshgoeian HR, Nasohi M, Khalilian A. Relationship between type 2 diabetic retinopathy and periodontal disease in Iranian adults
. North Am J Med Sci 2014;6:190 |
How to cite this URL: Amiri AA, Maboudi A, Bahar A, Farokhfar A, Daneshvar F, Khoshgoeian HR, Nasohi M, Khalilian A. Relationship between type 2 diabetic retinopathy and periodontal disease in Iranian adults
. North Am J Med Sci [serial online] 2014 [cited 2023 Mar 26];6:190. Available from: https://www.najms.org/text.asp?2014/6/4/190/131253 |
Dear Editor,
We appreciate the comments regarding our article entitled "Relationship between type 2 diabetic retinopathy (DR) and periodontal disease in Iranian Adults" published in North American Journal of Medical Sciences 2014; 6:139-44. [1]
In response to the comment, the control group, we selected healthy individuals matched to the cases as a secondary target for comparison of the oral hygiene and periodontal conditions of the diabetics versus the control group. The cases were 84 diabetic patients with retinopathy under focus and the controls were 129 type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) patients without retinopathy under focus. We state that the severity of periodontal disease was significantly correlated with the severity of DR, and the risk of proliferative DR (PDR) was significantly higher in the presence of periodontal disease. This comparison occurred between two groups of diabetic patients with or without respective to retinopathy. It could be considered that we agree some mistake occurred in the numbers of [Table 1] in our article. We wish to correct it as following:
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1. | Amiri AA, Maboudi A, Bahar A, Farokhfar A, Daneshvar F, Khoshgoeian HR, et al. Relationship between type 2 diabetic retinopathy and periodontal disease in Iranian Adults. N Am J Med Sci 2014;6:139-44.  |
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