Prevalence and determinants of undiagnosed diabetic retinopathy and vision-threatening retinopathy in a multiethnic Asian cohort: the Singapore Epidemiology of Eye Diseases (SEED) study.
Olivia S HuangWan Ting TayPeng Guan OngSabanayagam CharumathiChing-Yu ChengGavin S TanGemmy C M CheungEcosse L LamoureuxTien Y WongPublished in: The British journal of ophthalmology (2015)
In this community, a quarter with VTDR is undiagnosed, and 8 in 10 with any DR are undiagnosed, compared with only 1 in 10 with DM undiagnosed. These findings suggest that screening for diabetes is successful, while screening for DR is currently inadequate in our population. Public health strategies to aid early diagnosis of DR in Singapore are urgently warranted to reduce blindness due to diabetes.