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Study shows diabetics more likely to suffer vision problems
Dec 22, 2008, 2:08 GMT
Neu-Isenburg/Atlanta - Diabetics are at greater risk of a cataracts and glaucoma as well as astigmatism than non-diabetics, results of a US study published in the Neu-Isenberg-based German medical journal, Aerzte Zeitung, indicated recently.
Conducted by the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia on more than 1,200 diabetics and about 12,00 non-diabetics, the study found that 11 per cent of diabetics have limited visual abilities compared to just 6 per cent of non-diabetics.
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