Increasing prevalence of obesity occurs worldwide and can affect all ages levels. Risk factors of increasing metabolic syndrome were associated with changes in lifestyle, obesity and low birth weight (LBW). This study was aimed to analyze the genotype IRS-1, genotype PTPN1 and LBW in metabolic syndrome risk factors. In 2009, this restrospective cohort study was comprised of 97 LBW and 100 norma…
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a visual disorder caused by the diabetic microvascular complications. Genetic polymorphism in the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) gene plays an important role in the susceptibility of DR. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association of the polymorphism of VEGF gene insetion/deletion (I/D) -2549 with DR in Javanese type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM)…