Increased Arterial Stiffness as a Predictor for Onset and Progression of Diabetic Retinopathy in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Figure 2

The relationships between baPWV and new onset/progression of DR: (a) boxplots showing distributions of baPWV between the group without and with new onset/progression of DR; (b) comparisons of the group with (dark orange) and without onset/progression of DR (light orange) based on the tertiles of baPWV were illustrated by stacked bar plots.

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