Fahad Salem Alshahrani¹, Abdullah Saeed Alqahtani³ and Shaaban Abd-Elhamid Mehany Elwan^1,2

¹Ophthalmology Department, Security Forces Hospital, Riyadh, SA
²Ophthalmology Department, Faculty of medicine, Minia University, Minia, Egypt
³Family Medicine Department, Security Forces Hospital, Riyadh, SA

*Corresponding Author: Shaaban Abd-Elhamid Mehany Elwan, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology Department, Faculty of medicine, Minia University, Minia, Egypt.

Received: October 17, 2023; Published: October 27, 2023

Abstract

Objective: Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is the leading disease to blindness in Saudi Arabia and around the world which causes irreversible blindness and visual impairment among the adults as well as the elderly people. Diabetes mellitus, older age, and hypertension are the risk factors for DR.

Aim of the study: This study is retrospective and was conducted at Security Forces Hospital (SFH), Riyadh, SA. Which aimed to determine the prevalence of diabetic retinopathy among hypertensive and non-hypertensive patients.

Results: The study included 1600 confirmed diabetic legible patients out of them 205 participants had Diabetic retinopathy (DR). The overall prevalence of DR in all of patients’ was12.8%, while the prevalence of DR in type 2 DM was 12.7%, it was 13% in type 1 DM. The overall prevalence of NPDR was 12.1% and PDR was 0.68%. The prevalence of NPDR more frequent than PDR among DR patients were it was 94.6% and 5.4% respectively. The study shows that there is a significant correlation between hypertension and diabetic retinopathy with patients who have diabetes mellitus type 2.

Conclusions: This study concludes that, there is a significant rise in the prevalence of DR in patients who have DM type 2 in the hypertensive group. More studies are required in the

Future with a large number of samples and in different places to prove the correlations between hypertension and diabetic retinopathy.

Keywords: Diabetic Retinopathy (DR); Non Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy (NPDR); Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy (PDR); Prevalence; Diabetic Macular Edema (DME)

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Citation

Citation: Shaaban Abd-Elhamid Mehany Elwan., et al. “Prevalence of Diabetic Retinopathy Among Diabetic Hypertensive and Non-Hypertensive Patients in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia".Acta Scientific Ophthalmology 6.11 (2023): 61-66.

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