Diabetic Retinopathy& Its Associated Risk Factors among Patients Attending a Tertiary Care Hospital In Visakhapatnam, Andhrapradesh

Abstract

Abstract

http://ijmsnr.com/determining-of-prevalence-and-risk-factors-of-eye-disease-among-diabetes-in-india/

“…Whereas one study from Karnataka by Nayak et al [26] have mentioned the very high prevalence of DR as mentioned half percentage for more than 10 years and a similar percentage were having DM more than 5 years. Retinopathy increases with younger age at onset of diabetes and showed a significant association between DR and duration of diabetes, which is consistent with most of the previous studies Pamu et al [17], Giri et al [18], Liu et al [19] and Ahmed et al [20]. The risk factors like duration of DM, HbA1C, FBS, history of hypertension and medication also showed a higher significance with DR.…”

“…Majority of the patients in our were aged above 50 years and DR was also found in the mean age of 60.38 ± 9.06. But the study by Pamu et al [17] has shown a slight male preponderance in all age groups and the majority of DM patients in the age group of 41-50 years. Risk factors like BMI, hypertension, HbA1C, duration of DM and microalbuminuria were identified as statistically significant in their study.…”

“…In another one study by Looker et al[16] the prevalence of any DR at their first screening was found as 19.3%. Moreover, in some other studies the prevalence of DR was found by Pamu et al[17] 41%, Giri et al[18] 44.4%, Liu et al[19] 34.1%, Ahmed et al[20] 36.4%, Zhang et al[21] 27.9%. Furthermore, the prevalence of DR in our study was higher than those documented in other studies 21.7% by Gadkari et al[22] and 18% by Kim et al[10].…”