Abstract

 Diabetic retinopathy screening is the first step to take for treating diabetic patients in a large population. We don't know as of now, how many people are actually suffering from Diabetic Retinopathy. The actual no of patients are much more and it's increasing daily. Because of the slow progress nature of the disease, patients themselves don't know for years, that they are suffering from diabetes. Once it starts affecting all the microvascular structures of body, the effect becomes more prominent. Eye and kidney are one of the most important organs to get affected in diabetes. A no of different tests are getting done in community level to detect DR in early stage. With the progress of telemedicine and wide community awareness it's becoming easy to detect and screen patients in early stages and treat them.

Keywords: Screening; Diabetic Retinopathy; Eye; Kidney

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Citation

Citation: Abdulmajeed Alharbi. “Novel Trends in Screening for Diabetic Retinopathy”. Acta Scientific Ophthalmology 3.5 (2020): 52-54.

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Copyright: © 2020 Abdulmajeed Alharbi. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.