Validity of self-report in type 1 diabetic subjects for laser treatment of retinopathy.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

This study sought to determine the validity of self-report of prior panretinal photocoagulation (PRP) and focal photocoagulation (FP) compared with fundus photography.

Design

Prospective cohort study.

Participants

One thousand three hundred sixty-three type 1 diabetic subjects from the Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications (EDIC) study, a subset of the 1441 subjects originally enrolled in the multicenter Diabetes Control and Complications Trial.

Methods

At each annual visit, subjects were asked by EDIC staff whether they had undergone PRP, FP, or both since the last completed annual clinic visit. Fundus photographs were collected from one quarter of the cohort each year and from the entire cohort at EDIC years 4 and 10. Photographs we

SUBMITTER: Grassi MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3818390 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature