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Diabetic Retinopathy Website
Web: http://medweb.bham.ac.uk/easdec
The website is in partnership with Good Hope Hospital and the University of Birmingham. It provides information on diabetic eye complications. Topics covered include the following.
- Retinopathy
- Maculopathy
- Laser treatment
- Driving
- Rehabilitation
- Coping with one eye
- Coping with poor sight
- Magnification: principles
- Poor sight: useful hints
- Magnification:aids
- HbA1c & retinopathy
- Blood pressure
- Preventing retinopathy
- HbA1c & type 1 diabetes
- HbA1c & type 2 diabetes
- Diet and diabetes
- Smoking and diabetes
- Losing weight.
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