This study aims to evaluate the risk indicators of diabetic retinopathy in patients with type 2 diabetes screened by fundus photographs at a tertiary care diabetes centre in Tenali, AP, INDIA. A cross-sectional study was conducted at the outpatient department of MAMATHA HOSPITAL, TENALI, from October 2015 to March 2016. Patients >30 years of age were recruited randomly. Demographic, anthropomet...

OBJECTIVE We determined the longitudinal association of glucose metabolism with retinopathy in a sample of the Australian population. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS The Australian Diabetes Obesity and Lifestyle (AusDiab) study is a national, longitudinal study of adults aged > or =25 years from 42 randomly selected areas of Australia. Retinopathy was assessed at baseline in 1999-2000 and 5 years...

Diabetic retinopathy is emerging as one of the important causes of blindness in both developing and developed countries. High hemoglobin A1c level, high 2-hr blood glucose level, low uric acid level and positivity for proteinuria were found to be significantly associated for the development diabetic retinopathy. The study was done on a total of 75 subjects. They were divided into 3 groups as: G...

This paper reports for the first time on the natural history of diabetic retinopathy in three forms of youth onset diabetes seen in our country based on a 4 year follow-up study. Forty patients each with Fibrocalculous Pancreatic Diabetes (FCPD), Maturity Onset Diabetes of Youth (MODY) and Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus (IDDM) were followed for periods up to four years with annual fundus c...

Objective: Retinopathy is a microvascular complication of diabetes in the retina. It is hypothesized the aqueous flow decrease in patients with retinopathy which effects the Intra-ocular pressure (IOP). The purpose of this study is to determine whether a significant correlation exists between IOP and diabetic retinopathy grades. Materials and Methods: Our study is analytic cross sectional. Abo...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to determine the contribution of prepubertal and pubertal onset and duration of diabetes to the development of diabetic retinopathy. STUDY DESIGN A total of 1391 standardized fundus examinations (stereo fundus-photography) were performed in 441 children or adolescents with type-1 diabetes (median age 15.5 years, median duration of diabetes 6.3 years)....

D iabetic retinopathy is a highly specific vascular complication of both insulin-dependent (type I) and non-insulin-dependent (type II) diabetes mellitus. The prevalence of retinopathy is strongly related to the duration of diabetes. After 20 yr of diabetes, nearly all patients with type I diabetes and >60% of patients with type II diabetes have some degree of retinopathy. Diabetic retinopathy ...

OBJECTIVE By correlating known diabetes duration with the prevalence of retinopathy, more than 10 years have been estimated to lapse between the onset and diagnosis of type 2 diabetes. Such calculations, however, assumed a linear model, included stages of retinopathy not specific to diabetes, and allowed 5 years for retinopathy to occur after the onset of diabetes. We calculated the duration of...

BACKGROUND Increasing the level of awareness of diabetic retinopathy among individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus is considered an important factor for early diagnosis and management of diabetic retinopathy. The aim of this study was to evaluate awareness of diabetic retinopathy among a sample of type 2 diabetes mellitus patients in Jordan. PATIENTS AND METHODS The study period was from Au...

AIMS To assess whether there is a relationship between delay in retinopathy screening after diagnosis of type 2 diabetes and level of retinopathy detected. METHODS Patients were referred from 88 primary care practices to an English National Health Service diabetic eye screening programme. Data for screened patients were extracted from the primary care databases using semi-automated data colle...