Medscape October 23, 2024
Recent reports suggest diabetic retinopathy is more common in younger people than previously thought, leading to a call for more frequent screening for this condition and more attention to follow-up after diagnosis.
The increased incidence of diabetic retinopathy is “a potentially unappreciated public health catastrophe,” wrote Julie Rosenthal, MD, MS, of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and her coauthors in a recent viewpoint in JAMA Ophthalmology.
Rosenthal, an ophthalmologist, said she has been treating each year several young people with diabetes with symptoms of retinopathy that might have been prevented through earlier detection and treatment.
Some patients with retinopathy seek out eye specialists for issues such as seeing floaters, vision loss, or feeling of having cobwebs in their...
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