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 Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a vascular disease of the retina which affects patients with diabetes mellitus. It's the amount one explanation for blindness in people between the ages of 20-64 within the us. It is, therefore, a worthwhile topic for all medical students to review. DM is extremely common, so it's not surprising that DR affects 3.4 % of the population (4.1 million individuals). Of the many people with DR, nearly one-fourth have vision-threatening disease (AAO 2008). The likelihood of developing diabetic retinopathy is said to the duration of the disease. Type 2 diabetes has an insidious onset and may go unnoticed for years. As a result, patients may have already got DR at the time of diagnosis. Type 1 diabetics, on the opposite hand, are diagnosed early within the course of their disease, and that they typically don't develop retinopathy until years after the diagnosis is formed . The danger of developing retinopathy increases after puberty. Twenty years after the diagnosis of diabetes, 80% of type 2 diabetics and nearly all type 1 diabetics show some signs of retinopathy (Klein 1984a, Klein 1984b). While these numbers are eye-opening, diabetics can decrease their risk of retinopathy and slow the progression of the disease after it's begun with tight glucose control (DCCTRG 1993). Glucose control also has the additional advantage of decreasing risk for other end-organ complications of diabetes, so it's important that diabetic patients are educated on the subject . Time since diagnosis and extent of hyperglycaemia are the foremost significant risk factors for the DR, but other risk factors for development and progression include hypertension, dyslipidaemia, smoking, nephropathy, and pregnancy (AAO 2008).

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