Twenty Year Trends in Prevalence and in Incidence of Diabetic Retinal Disease

Ophthalmology Science (January 2025) published a paper titled, “Twenty Year Trends in Prevalence and in Incidence of Diabetic Retinal Disease.” An in-depth review that explores an overview of how the rates of diabetic retinal disease (DRD) and its vision-threatening components (VTDR), diabetic macular edema (DME), and proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) among patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) have changed over the past 20 years. The lead author is Brian L. VanderBeek, MD MPH MSCE.