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Primary Health Care: Open Access

ISSN - 2167-1079

Diabetic Retinopathy

Diabetic retinopathy is taken into account because the disease of eye related to diabetes. it's caused by the blood vessels changes within the retina. After these blood vessels get damaged, the leaking of blood may occur leading to the expansion of fragile new vessels. These changes of cell damage results in the impairment of vision. These changes may result in blurring of the vision, hemorrhage into the attention, or, if untreated, detachment of the retina also can happen. Microaneurysms, Retinal edema and hard exudates, Cotton-wool spots, Dot and blot hemorrhages, Macular edema are a number of the related causes of Diabetic retinopathy. Fluorescein angiography, Optical coherence tomography scanning and B-scan ultrasonography are the well-liked diagnosis for Diabetic retinopathy. This is often further classified as mild, moderate and severe counting on the presence of varied deciding factors. Maintaining a daily exercise and a healthy diet, keeping blood glucose within the traditional limits and therefore the prescribed medications are often opted within the day to day life to stop diabetic retinopathy.

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