Diabetes and Hypertension by Samy I. McFarlane & George L. Bakris

Author:Samy I. McFarlane & George L. Bakris
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Humana Press, Totowa, NJ

Diabetes and the Eye

Diabetes is the leading cause of new blindness in the USA among adults aged 20–74 [21]. Given its propensity to affect relatively young adults in the prime of their working lives’, with long duration of expected survival, the economic and social cost to our society is terribly high. A known or recently diagnosed diabetic patient who complains of visual distortion, “blurry vision,” or “floaters” must be taken very seriously, as it may herald the development of what may be or become irreversible blindness. Furthermore, diabetic eye disease is closely associated with other serious end-organ damage (i.e., chronic renal insufficiency, peripheral neuropathy, and coronary artery disease) [22].

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