Diabetes Affects Your Eyes: How to Preserve Your Vision with High Blood Sugar

Few people know that diabetes can deprive you of your vision even before you feel any problems. Candidate of Medical Sciences and ophthalmologist at the medical clinics network ‘Andreevskie Hospitals NO PAIN’ Igor Popov told ‘Evening Moscow’ about diabetic retinopathy, a complication that can lead to blindness, and how to prevent it. Diabetic retinopathy is the damage to the eye’s retina due to diabetes. It is one of the most severe complications because it can lead to complete vision loss. The statistics are alarming: retinopathy occurs in 90% of cases in type 1 diabetes and in 38.9% of cases in type 2 diabetes.