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Diabetic retinopathy at the Yaoundé Central Hospital in Cameroon: epidemiology and angiographic findings

We carried out a cross-sectional analytical survey using data from patients who had done Fluorescein Angiography at the Yaounde Central Hospital Diabetic Retinopathy Prevention and Management Project between October 2007 and January 2010 to identify the risk factors, incidence and severity of differ...

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Autores principales: Nanfack, Chantal, Koki, Godefroy, Mbuagbaw, Lawrence, Bella, Assumpta Lucienne
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3542778/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23330045
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author Nanfack, Chantal
Koki, Godefroy
Mbuagbaw, Lawrence
Bella, Assumpta Lucienne
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description We carried out a cross-sectional analytical survey using data from patients who had done Fluorescein Angiography at the Yaounde Central Hospital Diabetic Retinopathy Prevention and Management Project between October 2007 and January 2010 to identify the risk factors, incidence and severity of different types of diabetic retinopathy. Data from 239 males (57.0%) and 180 females (43.0%) with diabetic retinopathy were included. Their mean age was 58.2 years. A majority of them were living with type II diabetes (96.2%). The mean duration of diabetes was 8.2 years. About sixty percent had both diabetes and hypertension. The average level of glycated haemoglobin was 9.72% (range 6-17.7%). Amongst the 419 patients with diabetic retinopathy, 292(69.7%) had non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy. One hundred and twelve (26.7%) of those with proliferative diabetic retinopathy had a formal indication for laser photocoagulation. Fifteen patients (3.6%) presented with complicated forms of proliferative diabetic retinopathy. Diabetic maculopathy was present in 30 patients (7.2%). Diabetic retinopathy is a frequent complication of diabetes in our setting which stems from inadequate emphasis on preventive measures. The technical requirements for managing some of the existing complications are still unavailable. Fluorescein Angiography is an important diagnostic tool which should be popularized.
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spelling pubmed-35427782013-01-17 Diabetic retinopathy at the Yaoundé Central Hospital in Cameroon: epidemiology and angiographic findings Nanfack, Chantal Koki, Godefroy Mbuagbaw, Lawrence Bella, Assumpta Lucienne Pan Afr Med J Letter to the Editors We carried out a cross-sectional analytical survey using data from patients who had done Fluorescein Angiography at the Yaounde Central Hospital Diabetic Retinopathy Prevention and Management Project between October 2007 and January 2010 to identify the risk factors, incidence and severity of different types of diabetic retinopathy. Data from 239 males (57.0%) and 180 females (43.0%) with diabetic retinopathy were included. Their mean age was 58.2 years. A majority of them were living with type II diabetes (96.2%). The mean duration of diabetes was 8.2 years. About sixty percent had both diabetes and hypertension. The average level of glycated haemoglobin was 9.72% (range 6-17.7%). Amongst the 419 patients with diabetic retinopathy, 292(69.7%) had non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy. One hundred and twelve (26.7%) of those with proliferative diabetic retinopathy had a formal indication for laser photocoagulation. Fifteen patients (3.6%) presented with complicated forms of proliferative diabetic retinopathy. Diabetic maculopathy was present in 30 patients (7.2%). Diabetic retinopathy is a frequent complication of diabetes in our setting which stems from inadequate emphasis on preventive measures. The technical requirements for managing some of the existing complications are still unavailable. Fluorescein Angiography is an important diagnostic tool which should be popularized. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2012-11-16 /pmc/articles/PMC3542778/ /pubmed/23330045 Text en © Lawrence Mbuagbaw et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Letter to the Editors
Nanfack, Chantal
Koki, Godefroy
Mbuagbaw, Lawrence
Bella, Assumpta Lucienne
Diabetic retinopathy at the Yaoundé Central Hospital in Cameroon: epidemiology and angiographic findings
title Diabetic retinopathy at the Yaoundé Central Hospital in Cameroon: epidemiology and angiographic findings
title_full Diabetic retinopathy at the Yaoundé Central Hospital in Cameroon: epidemiology and angiographic findings
title_fullStr Diabetic retinopathy at the Yaoundé Central Hospital in Cameroon: epidemiology and angiographic findings
title_full_unstemmed Diabetic retinopathy at the Yaoundé Central Hospital in Cameroon: epidemiology and angiographic findings
title_short Diabetic retinopathy at the Yaoundé Central Hospital in Cameroon: epidemiology and angiographic findings
title_sort diabetic retinopathy at the yaoundé central hospital in cameroon: epidemiology and angiographic findings
topic Letter to the Editors
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3542778/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23330045
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