CHICAGO — Prerecorded telephone reminders may increase screening rates for diabetic eye disease among low-income minority patients, providing pronounced benefit to African-American patients, according to study data presented here.
Diabetic retinopathy is the most common inducer of blindness in working-age U.S. residents.
“Retinal screening can detect signs of diabetic eye disease, such as diabetic retinopathy, before vision loss occurs and progresses to blindness,” Eli Ipp, MD, professor and head of the section of diabetes and metabolism, Los Angeles Biomedical Research
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