Your Guide to Retinopathy & Maculopathy

In this episode Paul Coker talks to Dr Becky Thomas, a senior research officer at Swansea University School of Medicine about what retinopathy is and how and why it is different from maculopathy. There is also some disuccsuion on other forms of eye disease that can affect people with diabetes. This epsode covers:

• What is retinopathy?
• What is maculopathy?
• What do the codes like R1 & R2 mean, if I get a letter saying I have retinopathy
• How can I reduce my risk of developing retinopathy?
• If I have retinopathy, or maculaopathy, can I reduce the risk of it progressing?
• Will managing my blood glucose levels more tightly remove the risk of retinopathy?
  
  

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