To prevent diabetes-related visual impairment and blindness. To identify patients with treatable retinopathy, maculopathy or cataract. To identify patients who are developing early microvascular disease. Studies to date indicate that lowering blood pressure is important, but there is no agreement on an 'ideal' blood pressure level.
Photocoagulation reduces visual loss in patients with proliferative retinopathy or macular oedema.
Click on download Diabetes.zip above. Chose 'Save this program to disk'. Once the file has finished installing, open Windows Explorer. Find the directory the file is stored in and double click on the Diabetes.zip icon. Your computer will then produce Diabetes.doc , which you can view in Word 6.