"Physicians battle India’s diabetic retinopathy crisis"
- DBFI
- Nov 8, 2019
- 1 min read
As lifestyles and diets change, diabetic retinopathy is becoming an increasingly serious threat to eye health in India. Compounding this problem is the fact that treatment is mostly limited to urban tertiary care centers, which are unable to meet the needs of the entire population. As lifestyles and diets change, diabetic retinopathy is becoming an increasingly serious threat to eye health in India. Compounding this problem is the fact that treatment is mostly limited to urban tertiary care centers, which are unable to meet the needs of the entire population. Diabetes affects roughly 20 million Indians and is likely to affect 57 million by 2025. This means India will continue to have more people with diabetes than any other country, he said, citing statistics from the World Health Organization (WHO).
The rapid increase in cases is due to several factors, according to the WHO, including the asymptomatic nature of the disease in its early stage, the high dropout rate of patients and a lack of critical information.
“It is estimated that there may be 11 million to 20 million people with diabetic retinopathy by 2025, including 5.7 million people with severe retinopathy,
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