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Patients with diabetes facing vision loss at ever-earlier ages

The growing problem of diabetic retinopathy in young people and the need for response by primary care clinicians are discussed in the April ACP Internist.


Just as diabetes is affecting younger populations, so are its consequences. Childhood obesity can translate into diabetic retinopathy in patients in their 20s.

Learn how the primary care community should respond in the April ACP Internist.