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Objective: The objective of this study was to identify the incidence and risk factors for DR in diabetic patients undergoing treatment at Territory Hospital North India. Methodology: A hospital-based cross-sectional study that used a random sampling methodology comprised 350 T2DM patients. Semi-structured questionnaires, document inspections, and physical examinations were used to collect the data. We used logistic regression and receiver operating characteristic curve analyses to determine the relationships between sociodemographic and physiological risk factors and the severity of DR. Results: The mean age was 50.05 8.6 years among the 320 participants in this study, all of whom had T2DM, and DR was found in 134 patients (38.2%). Age (odds ratio [OR] = 1.184), body mass index (OR = 2.067), systolic and diastolic blood pressure, fasting blood glucose, 2 hours after breakfast sugar test, haemoglobin A1c, total cholesterol, triglycerides, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, serum creatinine, systolic blood pressure, 2 hours after breakfast sugar test, 2 hours after breakfast sugar were the major risk factors (p<0.05). Conclusion: The identification of DR risk factors in T2DM patients is clinically significant since it demonstrates how DM self-management might mitigate DR effects

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