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S S Feman1, R A Mericle, G W Reed
1Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt, Tennessee.
Abstract:
Serum angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) levels are higher in patients with diabetes mellitus than in many others. Techniques are available to grade different degrees of diabetic retinopathy, which can demonstrate a relationship between ACE and diabetic retinopathy. In this study, patients with diabetic retinopathy had higher serum ACE levels (6.3 +/- 0.2) than nondiabetic patients (4.3 +/- 0.5) (p < 0.001). In addition, the mean serum ACE level in diabetic patients with nonproliferative retinopathy (5.55 +/- 0.4) was less than that in diabetic patients with proliferative retinopathy (6.63 +/- 0.25) (p = 0.02). Due to the variability in individual serum ACE levels and the frequent use of ACE inhibitors by hypertensive diabetics, these techniques are not suitable for retinopathy screening programs. However, the graded relationship demonstrated by these data may have relevance for the pathophysiology of diabetic retinopathy.
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