The fact that the effect of diabetes on VCAM-1 was predominant in small caliber vessels is interesting considering that capillary degeneration begins early in diabetes retinopathy and as it advances, contributes to the large nonperfused areas of the retina

obtained plasma and the rest of patients included in the study samples in terms of sociodemographic, neither medical nor psychopathological characteristics. Blood samples for genotyping were usually obtained at the…