Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 26 (Reporters Qu Ting and Lin Miaomiao) With the aging of the population and changes in lifestyles, fundus disease has become an important cause of irreversible blindness among the Chinese population.
Experts urged that patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension are high-risk groups of fundus diseases. Fundus diseases cause many irreversible damage to vision, which seriously affects the quality of life, so early screening and treatment should be paid attention to.
In recent years, affected by factors such as improved hygiene, the spectrum of eye diseases in my country has also changed. The main blinding eye disease has changed from an infectious disease dominated by trachoma to a metabolic, chronic, and age-related eye disease.
With the popularity of surgery, the blindness rate of cataracts has decreased, and the incidence and blindness rates of fundus diseases such as diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration cannot be ignored.
According to Wang Ningli, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and leader of the National Blindness Prevention Technical Steering Group, at present, the chronic disease most closely related to blindness is diabetes.
In addition, high blood pressure can also easily cause ocular complications, such as fundus hemorrhage, arterial blockage, venous blockage, vitreous hemorrhage, ocular ischemic syndrome, etc., which are serious eye diseases that easily cause blindness.
"A photo of the fundus, the chronic disease will be known early." Wang Ningli reminded that through a photo of the fundus, one can understand the condition of the blood vessels and nerves in the fundus. Not only can it screen out common blinding eye diseases, but also discover some related to chronic diseases. Early eye complications.
Early diagnosis and early treatment can not only improve the therapeutic effect of fundus diseases, but also greatly reduce the cost burden.