Diabetes Complications: Eye Problems and Blindness

How Diabetes Affects Your Eyes
 
Diabetes can increase your risk of eye problems. Your blood sugar (glucose) levels may be high because your body can’t make or use insulin properly. Too much blood sugar can build up, damaging nerves and blood vessels in your body. When the damage happens in the blood vessels in your eyes, this can lead to vision loss or blindness. Anyone with diabetes is at risk, so it’s important to get routine eye exams.

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Signs and Symptoms of Eye Damage
Diabetic Retinopathy
Treatment — Laser Surgery                                                                                                          Treatment — Vitrectomy
Diabetic Retinopathy Prevention
Glaucoma and Diabetes
Cataracts and Diabetes
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6 Ways to Wreck Your Blood Sugar

Type 2 diabetes is a tough disease. It requires constant vigilance to keep your blood sugar level under control. 
 
It also requires avoiding some common mistakes, many of which are the product of long-held bad habits. 

Here are six mistakes that you can learn to avoid:

1. Not Knowing Your Disease
2. Expecting Too Much Too Soon
3. Going It Alone
4. Expecting Too Much Too Soon
5.  Misunderstanding and Misusing Medications
6. Making Poor Food Choices



 
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Causes of Secondary Hypertension

 In about 10% of people, high blood pressure is caused by another disease (this is called secondary hypertension). In such cases, when the root cause is treated, blood pressure usually returns to normal or is significantly lowered. These causes include the following conditions:

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Shoes and Diabetes: What’s on Your Feet Matters

When you have diabetes, you know you have to pay special attention to your feet.

Diabetic nerve damage, or neuropathy, can lessen your ability to feel pain — especially in your feet. That’s why it’s important to inspect your feet daily and choose your shoes wisely. You can get a corn, blister, callus, or foot injury and not be aware of it. Any of those foot problems can develop into open sores, called foot ulcers. Wearing well-fitting, comfortable shoes can prevent potentially serious problems. Learn more. 

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Top Diabetes Questions Answered

If you’re one of the nearly 24 million Americans living with type 2 diabetes, you know your body has difficulty using or producing insulin. What can you do to manage the disease? We asked Jill Crandall, MD, professor of clinical medicine and director of the diabetes clinical trials unit at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, to debunk some myths and help you learn to live well.

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