Screening and treatment for eye disease in all type 2 diabetes patients would result in an estimated net savings of 94,304 person-years of sight. -- Javitt, Jonathan C., Lloyd Paul Aiello, Yen-Pin Chiang, and S. Greenfield. "Preventive Eye Care in People With Diabetes is Cost-Saving to the Federal Government: Implications for health care reform". Diabetes Care. Vol. 17, No. 8, pp. 909-17. Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:39:55 -0500 http://www.silverbook.org/fact/1228 http://www.silverbook.org/fact/1228 Screening and treatment for eye disease in all type 2 diabetes patients would result in an estimated net savings of over $472.1 million-- in 1994 dollars. -- Javitt, Jonathan C., Lloyd Paul Aiello, Yen-Pin Chiang, and S. Greenfield. "Preventive Eye Care in People With Diabetes is Cost-Saving to the Federal Government: Implications for health care reform". Diabetes Care. Vol. 17, No. 8, pp. 909-17. Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:38:37 -0500 http://www.silverbook.org/fact/1227 http://www.silverbook.org/fact/1227 Of the 8 million older Americans at high risk of developing advanced age-related macular degeneration (AMD), 1.3 million will develop advanced AMD within 5 years. However, the NEI-sponsored Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS) nutritional formula could help 300,000 of those 1.3 million avoid the severe vision loss of advanced AMD over a 5-year period. -- Bressler, Neil M., Susan B. Bressler, Nathan G. Congdon, Frederick L. Ferris III, David S. Friedman, Ronald Klein, Anne S. Lindblad, Roy C. Milton, and Johanna M. Seddon . "Potential Public Health Impact of Age-Related Eye Disease Study Results: AREDS report no. 11". Archives of Ophthalmology. Vol. 121, No. 11, pp. 1621-4. Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:37:41 -0500 http://www.silverbook.org/fact/1226 http://www.silverbook.org/fact/1226 Screening and treatment of diabetic retinopathy in type 2 diabetes patients produces annual savings of $247.9 million to the federal budget-- in 1994 dollars. -- Javitt, Jonathan C., Lloyd Paul Aiello, Yen-Pin Chiang, and S. Greenfield. "Preventive Eye Care in People With Diabetes is Cost-Saving to the Federal Government: Implications for health care reform". Diabetes Care. Vol. 17, No. 8, pp. 909-17. Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:32:31 -0500 http://www.silverbook.org/fact/1225 http://www.silverbook.org/fact/1225 The cost-effectiveness of detection and treatment of eye disease in diabetics is $3,190 per quality adjusted life year (QALY). -- Javitt, Jonathan C., and Lloyd Paul Aiello. "Cost-Effectiveness of Detecting and Treating Diabetic Retinopathy". Annals of Internal Medicine. Vol. 124, No. 1, pp. 164-9. Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:31:19 -0500 http://www.silverbook.org/fact/1224 http://www.silverbook.org/fact/1224 Treatments that have been found to delay or prevent diabetic retinopathy save the U.S. $1.6 billion annually. -- Research to Prevent Blindness. "Diabetic Retinopathy". Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:30:22 -0500 http://www.silverbook.org/fact/1223 http://www.silverbook.org/fact/1223