Elimination of preventable blindness from diabetes by the year 2000.

Abstract

"Diabetes 2000" will parallel a major diabetic retinopathy public information campaign recently announced by the National Eye Institute. The NEI's National Eye Health Education Program (NEHEP), which targets both diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma, is fashioned along the lines of earlier federal initiatives against smoking and high blood pressure. By continuously updating our medical knowledge and skills related to this multisystem disorder, and by forging partnerships between physicians in the effective and efficient management of diabetic patients, we have a unique and important opportunity--we can reduce preventable blindness from diabetes by the year 2000.