*Corresponding Author: Dr. Chinmayi Vyas, C. H. Nagri Municipal Eye Hospital, Ahmadabad Email Id: chinmayivyas@gmail.com
Online published on 22 May, 2014.
To study the effect of additional risk factors on severity of Diabetic Retinopathy in Hospital based Diabetic population.
In this hospital based study screening of 1,48,343 patients from 1st January 2007 to 28th Feb. 2013 was carried out. Out of the total screened 36971 were found to be Diabetes positive. These patients were then subjected to detailed medical & ophthalmological check up following which they were sub-grouped into categories with specific additional risk factor.
Of all the risk factors five main associations namely Hypertension, Ischemic Heart Disease, Hypertension with Ischemic Heart Disease, Nephropathy & Neuropathy were found to Be most prevalent. Of the total Diabetes Mellitus positive patients 5735 had diabetic retinopathy.
Of all the important risk factors diabetes alone and Hypertension with co-existent Diabetes were found to be most prevalent and hence most significant. Cases of co-existent Nephropathy shown to have more severity of disease but our Outpatient Data was insufficient as most of the time patients were not aware of the problem.
