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Table 5 Visual acuity and retinopathy 6 years after diabetes diagnosis

From: Prevalence and progression of visual impairment in patients newly diagnosed with clinical type 2 diabetes: a 6-year follow up study

 

Visual acuity a

 
 

Normal

Moderately impaired

Blind

All patients

Retinopathy a

n = 734

n = 54

n = 16

n = 804

Diabetic retinopathy

    

   Microaneurysms only

46 (6.3)

5 (9.3)

0 (0)

51 (6.3)

   Further diabetic retinopathy b

48 (6.5)

10 (18.5)

3 (18.8)

61 (7.6)

Age-related macular degeneration, AMD

65 (8.9)

20 (37.0)

11 (57.9)

96 (11.9)

Other retinopathy

44 (6.0)

0 (0)

2 (10.5)

46 (5.7)

No retinopathy

541 (73.7)

23 (42.6)

1 (6.3)

565 (70.3)

  1. Data are numbers (column-%)
  2. a Refers to best seeing eye
  3. b Among patients with normal eye sight, impaired eye sight and blindness there are 4, 2 and 1 patient, respectively, with proliferative retinopathy