Our eyes give an early clue....but oh well 🤔

[pdpatient]

Because of my diabetes, which is very tightly controlled thanks to insurance and my awareness, I visited my retina specialist every 6 months for 14 years before diagnosis. Yet, the good doctor's keen eyes never caught my disease. Unfortunately so.

The good news is that the doctor confirmed my diagnosis when I informed her about it. It never occurred to me at the time that I should have asked her why she hadn't discovered that sooner.

Obviously, the medical community had this information for quite some time.

Read on

washingtonpost.com/health/r...

[park_bear]

One can hardly blame a retinal specialist for failing to implement this preliminary research:

"Initial results suggest that computer algorithms are able to use these fundus images to distinguish Parkinson’s patients from healthy controls with an accuracy upward of 70 percent."

[NRyan]

I can't read without subscribing. What does the article say? Thanks!

[pdpatient in reply to NRyan]

I thought that they give you a few free articles before forcing you to pay up at the paywall. Anyways, I will private message u the pdf version.

RKM

[NRyan in reply to pdpatient]

Hello RKM....did you send me the PDF? Thanks!

[pdpatient in reply to NRyan]

Yes, done via chat. Apologies for the delay. Could not send an attachment, so had to send a link to the pdf file.

RKM

[NRyan in reply to pdpatient]

Thank you!!!

[pdpatient in reply to NRyan]

You are most welcome.

RKM