Measurement of serum and vitreous concentrations of anti-type II collagen antibody in diabetic retinopathy

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Table 1 Clinical characteristics of the three groups of patients involved in this study

	Patients with DR	Diabetic patients without DR	Control patients
N	17	14	16
Male/female	11/6	9/5	11/5
Mean age, years	55.8±9.1	65.4±10.7	59.4±21.0

Abbreviations: DR, diabetic retinopathy; N, number.

Figure 1 Serum levels of anti-II-C IgG antibody.

Notes: The serum levels of anti-II-C IgG antibody (units/mL) were significantly higher in the DR patients than in the patients with noninflammatory eye disease. Moreover, those levels were also significantly higher in the diabetic patients without DR than in the patients with noninflammatory eye disease.
Abbreviations: DR, diabetic retinopathy; anti-II-C, anti-type II collagen; Ig, immunoglobulin.