Legend: In this second step of our two-part regression, we regressed hospital and market characteristics on the log of the adjusted average charges per length of stay at each hospital generated from t
The stages of DR were determined according to the severity scale of the Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study (ETDRS). Before treatment, increased blood flow in the central retinal artery (CRA),
Gene expression changes were identified by whole genome microarray and confirmed by qPCR in the same set of animals as used in the microarray analyses and subsequently validated in independent sets of