Eye care rare among low-income diabetics: study

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Eye care rare among low-income diabetics: study

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/eye-care-rare-among-low-income-diabetics-study-220129856.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/0lbRNJNldgCW2aYtMUDxqA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-12-10T220129Z_1_CBRE9B91P6K00_RTROPTP_2_USA-HEALTH.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="An eye exam is performed at the Remote Area Medical clinic in Wise, Virginia" align="left" title="An eye exam is performed at the Remote Area Medical clinic in Wise, Virginia" border="0" /></a>By Kathryn Doyle NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Young, low-income diabetics may not know they need annual eye exams, a new study suggests. At a large public hospital where the study was done, few diabetic patients had visited the eye care clinic within the last two years. That's troubling because without regular eye care, diabetics can lose their vision, author Paul MacLennan told Reuters Health. MacLennan led the study at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine.</p><br clear="all"/>

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