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| | Among newly blind
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| diabetes [US National Society to Prevent |
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| Blindness data] |
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| | Patients with
diabetic retinopathy 29x risk of |
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| becoming blind
in 4 yrs compared to general |
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| population [Wisconsin data] |
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| | Diabetes
increasing in First Nations |
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| population |
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| | Blindness
expected also to increase in First |
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population |
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