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Primary Care Study

Current study Study on the relationship between Diabetic Retinopathy and Diabetic microalbuminuria in Primary care health centres Introduction - Diabetes mellitus is prevalent in Hong Kong, with significant disease impact in terms of complications - "modifiable" complications: retinopathy, nephropathy - aim to assess relationship between DMR ( of different grades ) and DM microalbuminuria. Methodology - sample population: randomly selected from registered DM patients from Kowloon Families Clinic, Kwun Tong Elderly Health Centre, Ngau Tau Kok Family Medicine Training Centre and Kowloon Bay General Outpatient Clinic. - DMR: using Retinal Photography to document the absence/ presence/ grades of DMR. ( validity of interpretation documented ) - Patients followed up by eye specialists are included. - DM microalbuminuria is screened by Clinitek 50 and confirmed by 24-hour urine collection for microalbumin.

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