Abstract
Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a global epidemic with the number of affected subjects exceeding 4% of the adult population world-wide. Undiagnosed and untreated, the disease results in long-term complications such as myocardial infarction, stroke, and blindness. Treatment reduces the number and severity of long-term complications but treatment is often delayed by a time-lag of 10 years or more from the onset of disease to diagnosis. Earlier diagnosis can be achieved by systematic screening programs but the potential time won is unknown. The aim of the present study was to develop a mathematical model estimating the prediagnostic duration of type 2 diabetes mellitus using lens autofluorescence as an indicator of lifetime glycemic load. Fluorometry of the human is lens a quantitative measurement which is attractive because of the ease by which it can be performed. It is our hope that lens fluorometry will prove useful in estimating the prediagnostic duration of type 2 diabetes mellitus in population studies, a property of profound clinical relevance that is difficult to estimate by any other currently available method.
© 2003 SPIE
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