What does it mean?

Question

1 Diabetic retinopathy is a leading cause of blindness
in the United States.

Answer 1

Retinopathy is a general term that refers to some form of non-inflammatory damage to the retina of the eye. Most commonly it is a problem with the blood supply that is the cause for this condition. Frequently, retinopathy is an ocular manifestation of systemic disease.

Main causes of retinopathy are :

* diabetes - diabetic retinopathy
* arterial hypertension - hypertensive retinopathy
* prematurity of the newborn - retinopathy of prematurity (ROP)
* sickle cell anemia
* direct sunlight exposure - solar retinopathy
* medicinal products - drug-related retinopathy
* retinal vein or artery occlusion

Many types of retinopathy are progressive and may result in blindness or severe vision loss or impairment, particularly if the macula becomes affected.

Retinopathy is diagnosed by an optometrist or an ophthalmologist during ophthalmoscopy. Treatment depends on the cause of the disease.

All in all, because of this disease many Americans go blind.

Answer 2

Diabetic Retinopathy means a diseased condition of the Retina of the eye that is caused due to a prolonged diabetic condition in a person. It may cause blindness. The phrase you have mentioned, therefore, means in United States the number of diabetics is very high and it is the major cause of blindness in that country.

Answer 3

Do you mean that you meant the word "mean" in its original meaning or are you too mean to meet my mean standards? Oh, I'm going to start moaning about your mixing up all those m-words...