Risk of diabetic retinopathy at first screen in children at 12 and 13 years of age.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To investigate the relationships between age at diagnosis of diabetes, age at diabetic eye screening and severity of diabetic retinopathy at first and subsequent screenings in children aged 12 or 13 years.

Methods

Data were extracted from four English screening programmes and from the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish programmes on all children with diabetes invited for their first and subsequent screening episodes from the age of 12 years. Retinopathy levels at first and subsequent screens, time from diagnosis of diabetes to first screening and age at diagnosis in years were calculated.

Results

Data were available for 2125 children with diabetes screened for the first time at age 12 or 13 years. In those diagnosed with diabetes at 2 years of age or less, the pr

SUBMITTER: Scanlon PH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5434868 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature