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Screening for eye disease in type 2 diabetes mellitus
Author(s) -
Kristinsson Jóhannes Kári,
Stefánsson Einar,
Jónasson Fridbert,
Gislason Ingimundur,
Björnsson Sigurdur
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
acta ophthalmologica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.534
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1755-3768
pISSN - 1755-375X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1755-3768.1994.tb02770.x
Subject(s) - medicine , diabetic retinopathy , ophthalmology , fundus photography , diabetes mellitus , fundus (uterus) , macular edema , visual acuity , retinopathy , type 2 diabetes , eye disease , eye examination , optometry , fluorescein angiography , endocrinology
. A screening program for diabetic eye disease was established in Iceland in 1980. Approximately 90% of the insulin dependent patients in Iceland undergo annual eye examination and fundus photography and about a fifth of the type 2 diabetic patients. We report on 245 diabetic patients with type 2 diabetes. Any diabetic retinopathy was present in 100 patients (41%), proliferative retinopathy had been present in 17 (7%) and 24 (10%) had clinically significant diabetic macular edema. Twohundred and twenty‐four patients (91%) had visual acuity equal or better than 6/12 in their better eye, 17 patients (7%) with 6/18–6/36 in their better eye, and 4 patients (1.6%) equal or worse than 6/60 in their better eye.