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ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Year : 1991  |  Volume : 39  |  Issue : 4  |  Page : 174-175

Anti-insulin antibodies and retinopathy in juvenile onset type-1 diabetes


Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, Department of Medicine, Department of Anatomy, All Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Correspondence Address:
K Sharma
Department of Neuro-Ophthalmology, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Raebareli Road, Post Box 375, Lucknow - 226001
India
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PMID: 1810880

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Juvenile diabetics have severe loss of beta cell function and require replacement therapy with insulin. Insulin antigenicity can produce anti-insulin antibodies resulting in allergic reactions and insulin resistance. The role of insulin-anti-insulin antibody complexes in the development and progress of chronic diabetic complications like microangiopathy is not very clear. In the present study, there was statistically a significant trend of higher insulin antibody binding levels in IDDM patients who developed retinopathy. Though there was a trend of higher insulin antibody in IDDM patients with retinopathy, there was no association between insulin antibody and HLA antigen which some authors have reported.


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