Introduction:

the more frequent diabetes’s micro vascular complications involve mainly to the retina and the kidney. A narrow relationship has been recognized between diabetic retinopathy and micro albuminuria.

Objective:

to determine the behavior of the micro albuminuria in patient with diabetes type 2 and diabetic retinopathy.

Methods:

an observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study in patients with diabetes type 2 and diabetic retinopathy at the Arnaldo Milián Castro Hospital in the period between 2018 and 2019.

Results:

the women bigger than 60 years old were more affected with diabetic retinopathy (43, 2%). The proliferative retinopathy diabetic predominated (47, 7%) in patients with more than 10 years of evolution. The 38, 6% of patients had high micro albuminuria. The 32, 4% of patients with high micro albuminuria had a proliferative diabetic retinopathy and bad metabolic control. The number of patient with proliferative diabetic retinopathy, arterial hypertension associate and high micro albuminuria was smaller than we hoped to find.

Conclusions:

a little more than a 1/3 of the patients with diabetes and some grade of severity of diabetic retinopathy present high micro albuminuria. More than half of the patients with high micro albuminuria have a bad metabolic control, of these the majority with proliferative diabetic retinopathy. The number of patient with proliferative diabetic retinopathy, arterial hypertension associate and high micro albuminuria was smaller than we hoped to find in this series.

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