Diabetic Retinopathy Screening in Patients with Diabetes Using a Handheld Fundus Camera: The Experience from the South-Eastern Region in Hungary.

Dóra Júlia Eszes¹, Dóra Júlia Szabó², Greg Russell³, Csaba Lengyel⁴, Tamás Várkonyi⁴, Edit Paulik¹, László Nagymajtényi¹, Andrea Facskó², Goran Petrovski⁵, Beáta Éva Petrovski⁵

¹Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary.

²Department of Ophthalmology, Szent-Györgyi Albert Clinical Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary.

³Eyenuk Inc., Clinical Development, Woodland Hills, CA, USA.

⁴Department of Medicine, Medical Faculty, Albert Szent-Györgyi Clinical Center, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary.

⁵Center for Eye Research, Department of Ophthalmology, Oslo University Hospital and Institute for Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.

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Abstract

PURPOSE: Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the leading cause of vision loss among active adults in industrialized countries. We aimed to investigate the prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM), DR and its different grades, in patients with DM in the Csongrád County, South-Eastern region, Hungary. Furthermore, we aimed to detect the risk factors for developing DR and the diabetology/ophthalmology screening…

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