Low Serum Adiponectin Levels in Children and Adolescents with Diabetic Retinopathy/Diyabetik Retinopatili Cocuk Ve Ergenlerde Dusuk Serum Adinopektin Duzeyleri (Original Article) (Report‪)‬

Introduction The chronic complications observed in diabetes mellitus (DM) occur by angiopathic mechanisms and appear 10-20 years after the disease first develops. Early findings of late-stage complications, such as nephropathy, retinopathy, neuropathy, macroangiopathy and microangiopathy, start in childhood, and these complications can be either prevented or delayed with good metabolic control. Recognizing the long-term complications of diabetes in their early stages of development is thereforoe critical to increasing survival and improving the quality of life of diabetic patients [1, 2].