Corneal Confocal Microscopy Predicts Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Events and Demonstrates Greater Peripheral Neuropathy in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes and Foot Ulcers.
Jonathan Z M LimJamie BurgessCheong OoiMaryam FerdousiShazli AzmiAlise KaltenieceMatthew AnsonDaniel J CuthbertsonIoannis N PetropoulosRayaz Ahmed MalikJohn P H WildingUazman AlamPublished in: Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) (2023)
Our study provides threshold values for corneal nerve fibre metrics for neuropathic foot at risk of DFU and further demonstrates that lower CNFD predicts incident cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events in T1D.