What are the effects of the eyes from Diabetes?

Diabetic retinopathy is the earliest to see the complications. Diabetes duration 5 to more than 10 years, about retinopathy occurred more than 50%, especially in the case of out-of-control blood sugar. With the extension of disease, diabetic retinopathy in the elderly has become a blinding the most common causes. At the same time, diabetes can cause cataracts, glaucoma, angle conjunctival ocular disease and nerve paralysis. Beijing Tongren Hospital of Ophthalmology out-patient diabetic retinopathy found that about 2 / 3 of patients due to severe diabetic retinopathy, due to visual disability, blindness or even show that the problem is very serious. Therefore patients with diabetes experts advocate not only to see a physician regularly, but also to look at each of 1 or 2 times ophthalmologist.