Up to 33 per cent of people in Wales could be walking around with undetected serious eye and health conditions, such as glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, macular degeneration and even heart disease, because they ve missed their regular eye test. Findings released by Specsavers indicate that, between March and September 2020 145,777 people in South Wales missed an eye test, meaning many may have an eye or health condition that they are unaware of. Kevin McCarthy, director at Specsavers Ammanford, said: Regular examinations are capable of picking up so much more than whether or not someone can see normally. During the last 12 months we have made far fewer referrals and detected far less anomalies than would be expected in this time period because people have been cancelling their appointments for various reasons like self-isolating or nervousness around leaving their home.
Millions of adults may have undetected health conditions after missing routine tests during lockdown
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Brits who missed eye tests during lockdown could be battling these health problems
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