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Long-term study analysis finds diabetic Latinos at high risk of retinopathy, macular edema

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Posted on: May 6th, 2008
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“The incidence of diabetic retinopathy and clinically significant macular edema is high in Latino patients with , possibly because of poor glycemic control or longer duration of the disease, according to a study presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology meeting here.

Additionally, the incidence of diabetic retinopathy in the second eye exceeds the incidence in the first eye, the large-scale study found.

“Those [patients] with disease in one eye need to be closely monitored for disease in the contralateral eye,” Jessica Chung, MPH, said.”*

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