Providers can use continuous glucose monitoring metrics as well as HbA1c to assess diabetic retinopathy risk for adults with type 1 diabetes, according to findings published in Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics.
“Our study confirms that time in range, as well as time in tight target range, is associated with incident diabetic retinopathy,” Viral N. Shah, MD, associate professor of medicine and pediatrics in the adult clinic of the Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, told Healio. “We only evaluated diabetic retinopathy