Long-term study analysis finds diabetic Latinos at high risk of retinopathy, macular edema From: osnsupersite.com
Tagged: diabetesPosted on: May 6th, 2008
The incidence of diabetic retinopathy and clinically significant macular edema is high in Latino patients with diabetes, 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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