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Health promotion and public health
Biennial diabetic eye screening: unveiling ethnic and age-related disparities in delayed diagnosis
  1. Rajiv Raman1,
  2. Janani Surya Ravichandran2
  1. 1 Shri Bhagwan Mahavir Vitreoretinal Services, Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
  2. 2 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
  1. Correspondence to Dr Rajiv Raman; rajivpgraman{at}gmail.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebnurs-2023-103922

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    Commentary on: Olvera-Barrios A, Rudnicka AR, Anderson J, Bolter L, Chambers R, Warwick AN, Welikala R, Fajtl J, Barman S, Remgnino P, Wu Y, Lee AY, Chew EY, Ferris FL, Hingorani A, Sofat R, A Egan C, Tufail A, Owen CG; ARIAS Research Group. Two-year recall for people with no diabetic retinopathy: a multi-ethnic population-based retrospective cohort study using real-world data to quantify the effect. Br J Ophthalmol. 2023 Nov 22;107(12):1839-1845. doi: 10.1136/bjo-2023-324097.

    Implications for practice and research

    • Healthcare practitioners should consider ethnic disparities when implementing diabetic eye screening intervals, ensuring personalised approaches for high-risk populations to avoid delayed diagnosis and treatment. One should consider more frequent eye screenings for younger and ethnic minority diabetic patients to reduce delayed Sight Threatening Diabetic Retinopathy (STDR) diagnosis.

    • The research highlights the need for demographic-based screening intervals to combat healthcare inequalities. Continued research is essential to grasp the long-term effects of varied screening frequencies among ethnicities …

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    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer-reviewed.