A new study from researchers at the University of Michigan has found many children with type 1 and 2 diabetes are not receiving eye examinations as recommended to monitor for diabetic retinopathy, even when they have health insurance.
Researchers reportedly studied almost 10,000 patients ages 21 and under with newly diagnosed diabetes enrolled in a U.S. managed care network. Of those studied, they found only 65 percent of type 1 diabetes patients and 42 percent of type 2 diabetes patients had undergone an eye examination by six years after initial diabetes diagnosis. The researchers also reportedly found youth from racial minorities and from less affluent families had a reduced likelihood of having an eye exam.
The study was recently published online by JAMA Ophthalmology.
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Source: JAMA Ophthalmology