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A Challenge for Every Ophthalmologist

Thomas W. Gardner, MD, MS; Robert A. Gabbay, MD, PhD

Arch Ophthalmol. 2009;127(3):328-329.

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The United States has fought many battles, from the Revolutionary War to recent wars on poverty, drugs, and terror. Medicine and ophthalmology now face a widening battlefront against diabetes-induced vision loss. Globally, more than 1 billion adults are overweight and least 300 million are obese,¹ including 34% of American adults older than 20 years.² The increase in obesity has led to a doubling of the prevalence of diabetes in the last decade, and up to one-third of children born in 2000 will develop diabetes during their lifetime.³ Twenty-four million Americans (8%) have known diabetes, and 57 million have prediabetes.⁴ By 2050, the number of Americans with diabetic retinopathy is projected to triple from 5.5 million to 16 million, and the number of those with vision-threatening retinopathy will increase from 1.2 million to 3.4 million. The number of cataracts will increase . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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