KOLOA, Hawaii — Point-of-care screening tools may help improve screening compliance for diabetic retinopathy, according to a speaker here.
“We recognize that there is a global epidemic of diabetes. When you look at the rates of projected diabetics, it’s pretty staggering,” SriniVas Sadda, MD, said at Retina 2023. “We will have to develop systems to cope with this.”
Sadda said there were 415 million people with diabetes in 2015, which is expected to grow to 642 million people by 2040. Approximately 90% of diabetic blindness can be prevented with early