Eye health

Here a few things every diabetes patient should know[1]: Diabetes will eventually affect the blood vessels in your eyes. This is called diabetic retinopathy (DR), and it can lead to visual impairment and blindness. By controlling your blood sugar and blood pressure, you can reduce the damage diabetes can cause in your eyes. However, your…

As the global users of the Retina Risk app know well, systematic eye screening and preventive treatment dramatically reduce diabetic blindness. This has been shown to be true in Iceland, where over the past thirty years, there has been a dramatic drop in vision loss due to diabetes to the point that diabetic blindness has…

Why Retinal Screening Matters (This is the first of three short pieces dealing with retinal screening, which can mitigate the risk of diabetic retinopathy) Retinal screening is a key aspect of diabetes patient care. However, non-attendance at eye clinics has been recognized as an independent risk factor for poor outcomes from diabetic retinopathy (DR). In…

Meet Gede. He is 28, lives in Bandung, Java, Indonesia, and has Type 2 diabetes. Gede lost his sight from Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) or diabetic blindness, which could have been avoided. Like other young men and women with diabetes, he did not think he was at risk and didn’t routinely undertake diabetic eye screenings. His sight…