— Switching from annual to biennial exams would delay diabetic retinopathy diagnoses, study shows
By Randy Dotinga
Reducing the frequency of eye screening in patients with diabetes from annually to every other year would delay detection of sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy (STDR) and proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR), according to real-world data from a multi-ethnic population-based retrospective cohort study.
Among over 82,000 patients with diabetes in the London area, diagnosis of STDR would have been delayed by 1 year in 56.3% of patients, while diagnosis of PDR would have been delayed in 43.6%, reported Christopher Owen, PhD, of St. George’s University of London, and colleagues in the British Journal of Ophthalmology. Read the full article in MedPage Today.