Systemic Disease and the Eye

This course covers intermediate to advanced level information on systemic disease as it relates to the eye and is presented online thru Eye-Courses.com.

After completing this course, the student should be able to answer the following questions:

· What is a systemic disease?

· What are the 4 most common systemic diseases that affect the eye?

· What is Diabetes?

· What are the roles of insulin and glucose in the body?

· What is the difference between Type I and Type II Diabetes?

· What are the causes of Type I and Type II Diabetes?

· What are the symptoms of Diabetes?

· How is Diabetes diagnosed?

· What are the treatments for Diabetes?

· How does Diabetes affect the eye?

· What is hypertension?

· What can hypertension do to the body?

· What can hypertension lead to?

· What are the causes of hypertension?

· What are the treatments for hypertension?

· How does hypertension affect the eye?

· What does the thyroid gland do?

· What is the difference between hyper and hypothyroidism?

· What are the symptoms of hyper/hypothyroidism?

· What are the treatments for thyroid disease?

· How does thyroid disease affect the eye?

· What is Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)?

· What can RA do to the body?

· What are the symptoms of RA?

· What are the treatments for RA?

· How does RA affect the eye?

· What is uveitis?

· What disorders can cause uveitis flares?

This course should take approximately 1 hour to complete.

This course is pending approval from the AOA Commission on Paraoptometric Certification (CPC) for continuing education credit for use toward paraoptometric certification renewal.