About this site & EASDEC

This site now receives 100,000 hits a year. It is aimed at patients and their professionals helping them look after their diabetic retinopathy and diabetes. EASDec (the European Association for the Study of Diabetic Eye Complications) formerly allowed this site to bear their name, but they now have their own site .. www.easdec.org

This site is edited by David Kinshuck (Good Hope Hospital Eye Department, david.kinshuck @ heartofengland.nhs.uk), with a lot of help from colleagues from Good Hope Diabetic Clinic. Photographs have been taken by photographers at Good Hope, who are based at Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre (BMEC).

Photographers have included Laura Banks, Nicola Patt, Jonas Brane, Ade Wressell, Imke Daug, Hannah Causer, & Kevin Sanders.

Abbreviations

• HbA1C        haemoglobin A1C or glycosylated haemoglobin
• hypo           hypoglyacaemia, a very low blood sugar
• glucose       sugar : mean the same in this website
• PRP             peripheral retinal laser
• mac            maculopathy
• prolif           proliferative
• glucose       = bood sugar level

Terms & disclaimer

This leaflet/website discusses some principles concerning diabetes and the eye. More individual help should be sought from your GP or diabetic specialist nurse, other health professionals, and more detailed leaflets (see 'Other Sources of Information') . For a one page version, Microsoft Publisher, 112kb, click here.

This text was edited or written by David Kinshuck (Eye Clinic), and advice from Urmila Griffiths, a Diabetic Specialist Nurse.

For problems or questions regarding this website or text contact david.kinshuck @ heartofengland.nhs.uk (leave out spaces). I would like to add pages about the 'person with diabetes views'... if you have diabetes, and would like to contribute, please let me know.