Open AccessIdentification of risk factors for targeted diabetic retinopathy screening to urgently decrease the rate of blindness in people with diabetes in India
Author(s) -
Sagnik Sen,
Kim Ramasamy,
T P Vignesh,
Naresh Babu Kannan,
Sobha Sivaprasad,
Ramachandran Rajalakshmi,
Rajiv Raman,
Viswanathan Mohan,
Taraprasad Das,
Iswarya Mani
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
indian journal of ophthalmology/indian journal of ophthalmology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.542
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1998-3689
pISSN - 0301-4738
DOI - 10.4103/ijo.ijo_496_21
Subject(s) - medicine , diabetes mellitus , diabetic retinopathy , blindness , population , retinopathy , environmental health , optometry , endocrinology
There is an exponential rise in the prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) in India. Ideally all people with DM should be periodically screening for diabetic retinopathy (DR) but is not practical with current infrastructure. An alternate strategy is to identify high-risk individuals with vision-threatening diabetic retinopathy (VTDR) for priority screening and treatment.