| Diabetic retinopathy is still the main cause of blindness at adult age and will be of increasing clinical importance during the coming years with an increasing number of blind patients. More information and clinical studies are needed to find out new non-invasive diagnostic procedures (RTA, OCT) to detect patients at risk in an early phase of the disease and to detect pharmacological interventions to inhibit the progression to macular oedema and proliferative diabetic retinopathy. Furthermore, it is important to know more details about risk factors and maternal inheritance of diabetic vascular complications to detect preventive measurements and to treat children and adults with an increased risk in an early stage. |
