EyeSmart EyeCheck combats undetected eye disease and visual impairment

Today the American Academy of Ophthalmology and its partners launched a new initiative, EyeSmart EyeCheck, to combat undetected eye disease and visual impairment among at-risk populations in the United States. The initiative comes as new data from the Los Angeles Latino Eye Study (LALES) show that Latinos have higher rates of visual impairment, blindness, diabetic retinopathy and cataracts than non-Hispanic whites. EyeSmart EyeCheck will focus initially on the Latino community.

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