African Caribbean people with type 1 diabetes found to be at greater risk of losing sight kingscollegelon
There is limited information on the effect of ethnicity on the development of referable sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy in people with type 1 diabetes. This study describes the risk factors for STDR in a diverse cohort of people with type 1 diabetes attending a regional diabetes eye screening service.Clinical and digital retinal imaging data from 1,876 people with type 1 diabetes with no retinopathy at baseline, attending surveillance eye screening were reviewed.
Referable STDR was defined as the presence of any moderate to severe nonproliferative or preproliferative diabetic retinopathy or proliferative diabetic retinopathy or maculopathy in either eye as per U.K. National Diabetic Eye Screening criteria. Median follow-up was 6 years.The median age of the cohort was 29 years. Of the cohort of 1,876 people, 359 developed STDR.
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