Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is essentially, but not exclusively, a microvascular disease. In the absence any interventions, the disease usually progress from mild to more severe stages in an orderly fashion.
The classification of diabetic retinopathy is mainly based on two factors: the presence or absence of new vessels and the presence or absence of subfoveal macular oedema (2).
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