Advances in diabetic retinopathy could save sight, money with more frequent eye exams.
Advances in diabetic retinopathy could save sight, money with more frequent eye exams.
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糖尿病视网膜病变的进展可以通过更频繁的眼科检查来挽救视力和金钱。
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1990
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据认为，每6个月进行一次眼睛检查，可以在损害变得不可逆转之前检测糖尿病视网膜病变，从而节省数百万美元。“如果联邦政府提供资金来筛查和治疗糖尿病眼病患者，从长远来看，纳税人的实际成本将远远低于”支付失明的残疾，乔纳森C。Javitt博士，公共卫生硕士，乔治敦大学医学院眼科学助理教授，华盛顿Worthen眼科护理研究中心副主任。他在加州环球城的一个预防失明研究研讨会上发表了这一分析。乔治城大学的研究预计将推动美国眼科学会和国家眼科研究所的努力，说服医生和患者采取行动，在预防工作年龄美国人失明的主要原因方面取得进展。研讨会上提出的另一项非常初步的研究表明，抗组胺药可能会阻止这一过程，
EYE EXAMINATIONS every 6 months, it is argued, could save millions of dollars by detecting diabetic retinopathy before damage becomes irreversible. "If the federal government provided funds to screen and treat patients who have diabetic eye disease, the actual cost to taxpayers in the long run would be far less" than paying for the disability of blindness, says Jonathan C. Javitt, MD, MPH, assistant professor of ophthalmology, Georgetown University School of Medicine, and associate director, Worthen Center for Eye Care Research, Washington, DC. He presented the analysis at a Research to Prevent Blindness seminar in Universal City, Calif. The Georgetown study is expected to boost American Academy of Ophthalmology and National Eye Institute efforts to persuade physicians and patients to act on proven advances in preventing this leading cause of blindness among working-age Americans. Another, very preliminary, study presented at the seminar suggests that antihistamines may prevent the process that