Omari A, et al. - A total of 30 participants treated with panretinal photocoagulation (PRP) and 15 controls to investigate the reading deficiencies in subjects treated with PRP for proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) using the Minnesota reading (MNREAD) test. They observed that PRP-treated cases had lesser MNREAD acuity and raised critical print size but insignificantly reduced maximum reading speed. They noted a strong positive correlation of logmar MNREAD acuity with logMAR best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) whereas a strong negative association with frequency doubling perimetry (FDP) foveal threshold. A positive association was reported between maximum reading speed and FDP foveal threshold and FDP mean deviation. No relationship between visual acuity and the sensitivities on the FDP was recorded.