Diabetes and Eyesight
Healthy vision is one of the many things diabetes can harm if it isn’t carefully controlled.
This is true for both type 1, type 2, and even gestational diabetes (which works like type 2 while it lasts). With diabetes, the risk of developing a number of eye diseases goes up, including cataracts, diabetic macular edema (DME), diabetic retinopathy, and glaucoma. If you combine these diseases under the umbrella term “diabetic eye disease,” that makes diabetes a worldwide leading cause of blindness.