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<blockquote data-quote="Dark Horse" data-source="post: 1591870" data-attributes="member: 52527"><p>The eye screening test is very good at identifying sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy, it is not so good at identifying the difference between background retinopathy (which does not affect your sight) and no retinopathy, particularly on the first screening. What appears to be background retinopathy on a first screening can, when seen with a different camera flash/angle turn out to be a harmless pigment spot.</p><p></p><p>Because type 1 diabetes has a very sudden onset, blood sugars will have been high for only a very short time. Sight-threatening retinopathy takes years of exposure to high blood sugars to develop so annual screening is fine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dark Horse, post: 1591870, member: 52527"] The eye screening test is very good at identifying sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy, it is not so good at identifying the difference between background retinopathy (which does not affect your sight) and no retinopathy, particularly on the first screening. What appears to be background retinopathy on a first screening can, when seen with a different camera flash/angle turn out to be a harmless pigment spot. Because type 1 diabetes has a very sudden onset, blood sugars will have been high for only a very short time. Sight-threatening retinopathy takes years of exposure to high blood sugars to develop so annual screening is fine. [/QUOTE]
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