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[Music] diabetic retinopathy is a leading cause of acquired blindness and adults in the United States and one of the things that's so interesting about it is that there are life saving and sight saving interventions that can be applied it really if we identify it nationally only 50% of the patients that have diabetes in this country actually get the required screen which is recommended to be once a year for all patients that have diabetes and in some cases every 2 to 3 years if they're well controlled however patients that are in racial and ethnic minority groups or from lower socioeconomic groups tend to have rates that are much lower than the national average a community health center Inc we found over time in the years of 2008 and 2009 that only about 10 to 12% of our patients with diabetes were actually getting the annual recommended diabetic retinopathy screening I know I have diabetes in my family so I eventually knew I was going to end up with diabetes I guess cause it's heredit