Diabetic maculopathy in a Jamaican population

Abstract

Maculopathy is the commonest cause of severe visual loss from diabetic retinopathy in Jamaica [5]. Ophthalmic assessment of 158 black Jamaican maturity onset diabetics referred randomly from the primary and secondary health centres, demonstrated maculopathy in 48% of patients. Duration of diabetes was a strong risk factor for maculopathy (p less than 0.001). Poor compliance with diabetic and hypertensive therapy may influence the prevalence of maculopathy.

Risk factors for diabetic retinopathy in a South Indian Type 2 diabetic population—the Chennai Urban Rural Epidemiology Study (CURES) Eye Study 4

“…Duration of diabetes is known to be an independent, and perhaps one of the most important, risk factors for retinopathy [31,32]. In the present study, a significant association was observed with DR and duration of diabetes, similar to that reported in several other studies [33][34][35].…”