Mohammad Sadra Gholami Chahkand, Fatemeh Esmaeilpour Moallem, Abolfazl Qezelgachi, Kiana Seifouri, Armin Pesaran Afsharian, Farzad Sheikhzadeh, Atefe Poursalehi, Fateme Sadat Fani Sadrabadi, Mehrnush Saghab Torbati, Mohaddese Ramezanzade, Goharsharieh Alishiri, Arina Ansari, Emad Zare Dehabadi, Saeed Karimi Matloub, Zahra Sheikh, Niloofar Deravi, Saba Mehrtabar, Fatemeh Chichagi, Neda Faal Hamedanchi, Mohammadreza Arzaghi, Mahla Asadi, Parisa Alsadat Dadkhah, Akram Ansari
BACKGROUND: Lipoprotein a (LP(a)), an LDL-like lipoprotein, known as a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, has a controversial association with diabetic retinopathy in patients with type 2 diabetes-the current systematic review aimed to critically assess the association between LP(a) and diabetic retinopathy. METHODS: A systematic review of relevant studies was conducted after a thorough search in PubMed, Scopus, and Google Scholar electronic databases. We used English observational, case-control, and prospective cohort studies published up to August 2022, including type 2 diabetic patients as the population, diabetic retinopathy as the outcome, and LP(a) as the intervention...
2023: Diabetes & Vascular Disease Research