Check out the amazing infographic* below. Nobody likes to think about diabetes leading to blindness, but of course it can.
What struck me here is the “barriers to diagnosis and care” stripe towards the bottom: 32% didn’t know
Check out the amazing infographic* below. Nobody likes to think about diabetes leading to blindness, but of course it can.
What struck me here is the “barriers to diagnosis and care” stripe towards the bottom: 32% didn’t know they even needed an eye exam, 36% heard about eye risks only upon diagnosis, and 22% never-ever had a doctor talk to them about the risk of vision loss from diabetes!
*Where did this come from?
Alliance Health Networks (former partners of DiabetesMine) worked with pharma powerhouse Genentech to assess what people with diabetes understand and don’t understand about diabetes and eye health. In May of 2013, 1,674 people with diabetes completed their survey.
Genentech took the resul