Blood Sugar Control can Combat Eye Problems in Diabetics

Thu, 01 Jul 2010
Keeping blood sugar down to normal and taking drugs keep blood levels of cholesterol and other fats down can aid diabetics avoid the possibly blinding eye disease retinopathy .

These are the findings of latest research.

Hitherto, it had been unclear whether or not firm control of blood sugar and fats, or lipids, could prevent retinopathy in those who have been diabetic for up to a decade.

Several years of high blood sugar levels can ruin blood vessels in the retina, triggering diabetic retinopathy, which results in the gathering of fluid and other deposits in the eye. If left untreated, it can lead to blindness .

The new study was published online June 29 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

It studied diabetics who had lived with type 2 diabetes for around ten years. The study participants had no history of eye disease at the outset.

Each participant had a standard eye exam at the beginning the trial and then after four years.

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