African Caribbean people with type 1 diabetes are at 39% greater risk of developing sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy, which if untreated can lead to blindness. The paper, published today in Diabetes Care and led by researchers from King’s, adds much needed evidence to show the relationship between ethnicity and type 1 diabetes-related retinopathy. Diabetic retinopathy is […]

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