Screening for eye disease in type 2 diabetes mellitus

• Published in: Acta Ophthalmologica
• Main Authors: Kristinsson, J K, Stefansson, E, Jonasson, F, Gislason, I, Bjornsson, S
• Other Authors: Department of Ophthalmology, University of Iceland, Landakotsspitali, Reykjavik.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Scriptor Publishers Aps 2011
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Age Distribution; Aged; 80 and over; Blindness; Child; Preschool; Diabetes Mellitus; Type 2; Diabetic Retinopathy; Female; Humans; Iceland; Infant; Newborn; Laser Therapy; Male; Middle Aged; Prevalence; Visual Acuity
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2336/122711; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-3768.1994.tb02770.x

To access publisher full text version of this article. Please click on the hyperlink in Additional Links field 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. Two-hundred 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.