Diabetic Eye Exams
DIABETIC EXAMS
Importance of diabetic eye care
Diabetes can damage your eyes over time and cause vision loss, even blindness. The good news is managing your diabetes and getting regular eye exams can help prevent vision problems and stop them from getting worse.
Eye diseases that can affect people with diabetes include diabetic retinopathy, macular edema (which usually develops along with diabetic retinopathy), cataracts, and glaucoma. All can lead to vision loss, but early diagnosis and treatment can go a long way toward protecting your eyesight.
Diabetic eye exams
Testing will include various techniques and tools to assess your vision, eye health, and ocular diseases and conditions that can be associated with diabetes. Some of the tests that are included in a diabetic eye exam are:
Visual Acuity Testing
Pupil Dilation
Fundus Photography
Glaucoma Testing
Fast Facts on Diabetes from the CDC
Diabetes
- Total: 37.3 million people have diabetes (11.3% of the US population)
- Diagnosed: 28.7 million people, including 28.5 million adults
- Undiagnosed: 8.5 million people (23.0% of adults are undiagnosed)
Prediabetes
- Total: 96 million people aged 18 years or older have prediabetes (38.0% of the adult US population)
- 65 years or older: 26.4 million people aged 65 years or older (48.8%) have prediabetes
