August 9, 2022
Category :Diabetes Facts| Healthy Advocacy
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Diabetes can cause a variety of eye diseases that can potentially lead to severe vision loss and even blindness. These diabetic eye diseases include diabetic retinopathy, cataract and glaucoma. Diabetic retinopathy is the most common eye disease in patients with diabetes.
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May 13, 2022
Category :Diabetes Facts
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Too much glucose (sugar) in the blood for a long time can cause diabetes problems. This high blood sugar can damage many parts of the body, such as the heart, blood vessels, kidneys, and the eyes. We will feature some tips on how to maintain your eye health. First, let us understand how diabetes can hurt the eyes. High blood glucose and high blood pressure from diabetes can affect your eyes. » Continue Reading
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March 29, 2022
Category :Diabetes Facts
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The Low Vision Enigma
In an extremely colorful and multi-faceted world such as the one we live in, it is an enigma that so many concepts are considered as plainly black and white. One such enigma is the concept that people are thought of as either sighted or blind – with no gray areas in between.
For all intents and purposes, the health delivery system in our country is geared towards treating the sighted or managing the blind. What happens to the significant population of individuals who have neither normal visual function nor are completely unsighted? » Continue Reading
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blindness, health care providers, low vision, residual vision, surgical management
January 21, 2022
Category :Diabetes Research
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Carbohydrates in certain diets are found to up the risk of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the most common cause of blindness among the elderly, according to a published report in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
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blindness, glycemic index