de Ritter R, Sep SJS, van der Kallen CJH, et al. - Macrovascular complications disproportionately affected women with type 2 diabetes; Researchers evaluated if this is also the case for microvascular complications and retinal microvascular measures. A population-based cohort study was conducted including 3,410 individuals aged 40–75 years (49% women, 29% type 2 diabetes (oversampled by design)). Gender-specific associations, and differences therein, of (pre)diabetes (reference: normal glucose metabolism), and of continuous measures of glycemia with microvascular complications and retinal measures (nephropathy, sensory neuropathy, and retinal arteriolar and venular diameters and dilatation) were calculated. Findings revealed that early microvascular complications did not disproportionately affect women with type 2 diabetes.