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The study identified a clear need to: (i) improve patient engagement in self-management of the disease, (ii) provide
better education to improve lifestyle choices, and (iii) ensure attendance at regular eye checkups.
Some useful tips for diabetic patients:
Increase your awareness about diabetes: Read about your diabetes and understand why good
control is essential to reduce diabetic complications including eye diseases.
Make sure you have regular eye checkups.There are various stages of changes in the eye
before severe complications of diabetes occur. If these changes are caught early, through regular
eye checkups, then early treatment can prevent blindness.
Do regular exercise: It is important that you exercise regularly. There are various exercises that
may suit you. For example some gyms offer keep-fit exercises to Indian music. You may also
consider doing brisk -walking, or forming a garba group .
Your food: Be careful of food you eat. It is not just sugar that you have to worry about. Eat less fat
and increase your uptake of fresh fruits and vegetables. Avoid ghee and butter on your roti and
curries. Make sure that you try to control your intake of rich oily and sweet food at weddings, or
when breaking your religious fast.
Support: Get support from your family. Join or start up a diabetes self-help group.
To summarize, regular eye checkups, improved diet, regular physical exercise, adequate self-awareness about
diabetes are all very important to control diabetic eye diseases, to reduce the risk of blindness and to improve
patients quality of life.
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Professor Shahina Pardhan and Professor Rajiv Raman
Vision and Eye Research Unit (VERU), Anglia Ruskin University, UK
SankaraNethralaya Hospital, Chennai, India.
Professor Pardhan, from the Vision and Eye Research Unit at Anglia Rusk in University in Cambridge, UK in
collaboration with Professor Rajiv Raman from Sank araNethralaya Hospital in Chennai, has recently set up an
international collaborative research group with researchers from various parts of India work ing towards reducing
the risk of diabetic eye disease.
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