Objective To estimate the prevalence of diabetic retinopathy (DR) in residents at the age of ge; 60 years in Beixinjing blocks, Shanghai, and to analyze the changes and risk factors of the occurrence of DR while comparing with the previous epidemiology study in the same blocks in 2003.Methods With the help of an established resident health data,a epidemiology study was performed on all of the old residents (ge; 60 years old) with diabetes mellitus from November 2007 to April 2008.The epidemiology data included resident common information, health check, examination of visual acuity,slitlamp biomicroscopy, direct ophthalmoscopy, and photography of 2 pictures covering 450 posterior ocular fundus area acquired by digital nonmydriasis fundus camera. The diagnosis of DR was drawn according to the international DR classification (2002). The DR grade was compared in 254 residents who were involved in both of the two epidemiology studies in 2003 and 2007.Chisquare method was used to analyze the risk factors of DR and stepwise logistic analysis was used for identifying the independent factors.Results A total of 483 diabetic residents was included in this study with the inclusion rate of 91.30%, in whom 121 DR patients was found with the DR prevalence of 25.05％. The prevalence of non-proliferative DR and proliferative DR was 22.36% and 2.69%, respectively. The duration of diabetes was confirmed as the independent risk factor of DR prevalence, and no risk factor was found to affect the different ratio of non-proliferative and proliferative DR. Comparing to the results of the study in 2003,the DR grade remained steadily or decreased in 92.52% of the 254 diabetes residents.Conclusion The prevalence of DR is high in the diabetic residents at the age of ge; 60 years.The intervention work of DR prevention in Beixinjing blocks is effective.
Objective To observe the influences of uncoupling protein 2 (UCP-2) rs660339 variants transfection on cell proliferation and apoptosis of human umbilical vein endothelial cell (HUVEC). Methods Two UCP-2 green fluorescent protein (GFP) lentivirus constructs were created with the rs660339 locus carried C or T (UCP-2C or UCP-2T), respectively. HUVEC were cultured after lentiviral infection of UCP-2C or UCP-2T. The expression of UCP-2C or UCP-2T was detected with real time polymerase chain reaction. Cell proliferation and cell apoptosis were compared among negative control (NC) group, UCP-2T group and UCP-2C group using CCK-8 cell viability and flow cytometry. Western blot and immunostaining were employed to examine the expression of Bcl-2 gene. Results The lentivirus constructs were successfully created. ＞80% of the transfected cells were found to express GFP under fluorescent microscope. The mRNA levels of UCP-2 gene were significantly increased (F=29.183,P=0.001) in the UCP-2T group and UCP-2C group. The CCK-8 assay revealed that on day two (F=15.970,P=0.004), day three (F=16.738,P=0.004), day four (F=5.414,P=0.045) post-infection, UCP-2T and UCP-2C group showed significantly greater proliferation than the NC cells. The apoptotic rate in the UCP-2T and UCP-2C group was significantly lower than NC group (F=277.138,P=0.000), and the apoptotic rate of UCP-2T was significantly lower than that of UCP-2C (P=0.003). The protein levels of Bcl-2 in the UCP-2T and UCP-2C group were significantly greater than that in the NC group (F=425.679,P=0.000), and the Bcl-2 expression of UCP-2T was greater than that of UCP-2C (P=0.002). The Bcl-2 density in the UCP-2T and UCP-2C group were greater than that in the NC group (F=11.827,P=0.008), while there was no difference between UCP-2T and UCP-2C group (P=0.404). Conclusion The variants of UCP-2 rs660339 may influence HUVEC proliferation and apoptosis, and UCP-2T showed a stronger effect of inhibiting apoptosis than UCP-2C.