Erratum

De Block CEM, De Leeuw IH, Van Gaal LF: Impact of overweight on chronic microvascular complications in type 1 diabetic patients. Diabetes Care 28:1649–1655, 2005

In the section titled “In This Month’s Issue of Diabetes Care” for July, the incorrect summary appears for the above-listed article. The correct summary is as follows.

An interesting article in which the authors investigated the association of BMI with retinopathy and neuropathy in 592 type 1 diabetic patients. Retinopathy and neuropathy appeared to be more prevalent in overweight type 1 diabetic subjects. However, logistic regression analysis showed that diabetes duration and HbA_1c remain the main determinants for retinopathy and neuropathy.