Retina Care Visits Reveal High BP in Adults With Diabetes
Any proposal to incorporate routine systemic screening must therefore balance feasibility, staffing, clinic efficiency, documentation burden, medicolegal responsibility, and downstream referral pathways,” Rishi P. Singh, MD, wrote in an invited commentary accompanying the journal article.SOURCEThe study was led by Sai Samayamanthula, of the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville, Virginia. It was published online on June 25 in JAMA Ophthalmology.LIMITATIONSThe study was conducted at a single center and had a limited enrollment window of 6 weeks.
- ▪Any proposal to incorporate routine systemic screening must therefore balance feasibility, staffing, clinic efficiency, documentation burden, medicolegal responsibility, and downstream referral pathways,” Rishi P.
- ▪Singh, MD, wrote in an invited commentary accompanying the journal article.SOURCEThe study was led by Sai Samayamanthula, of the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville, Virginia.
- ▪It was published online on June 25 in JAMA Ophthalmology.LIMITATIONSThe study was conducted at a single center and had a limited enrollment window of 6 weeks.
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TOPLINEA substantial proportion of adults with diabetes who visited retina clinics had uncontrolled or previously unrecognized high blood pressure (BP) and were often advised to seek follow-up medical care; many of them were already on antihypertensive treatment.METHODOLOGYResearchers conducted a prospective case series to assess the prevalence of elevated or uncontrolled BP in adults with diabetes during routine visits to retina clinics.They enrolled 172 adults with type 1 or type 2 diabetes (mean age, 66.6 years; 48.8% women) at a US retina clinic between July and August 2024.
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