{"id":7576,"date":"2023-10-31T07:46:17","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T14:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allocare.caredx.com\/?p=7576"},"modified":"2023-10-31T07:46:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T14:46:25","slug":"diabetic-eye-screening-reducing-frequency-may-raise-retinal-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2023\/10\/31\/diabetic-eye-screening-reducing-frequency-may-raise-retinal-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"Diabetic Eye Screening: Reducing Frequency May Raise Retinal Risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"7576\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2014 Switching from annual to biennial exams would delay diabetic retinopathy diagnoses, study shows<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>By Randy Dotinga<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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&#8217;s University of London, and colleagues in the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bjo.bmj.com\/content\/early\/2023\/09\/28\/bjo-2023-324097\" target=\"_blank\"><em>British Journal of Ophthalmolog<\/em><\/a>y. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/ophthalmology\/generalophthalmology\/107046?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2023-10-27&amp;eun=g2017571d0r&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Daily%20Headlines%20Evening%202023-10-27&amp;utm_term=NL_Daily_DHE_dual-gmail-definition\">Read the full article <\/a>in MedPage Today.<\/p>\n<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"7576\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loading \u2014 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 &hellip; 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