Type 2 diabetes may have some association with primary open angle glaucoma (POAG). According to the researchers of Harvard Medical School, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, POGA is a common form of all glaucoma. After conducting a study, they found that type 2 diabetes is associated with an increased risk of glaucoma. The journal Ophthalmology has published the report. Obesity may cause the type 2 diabetes epidemic but at the same time, it seems that factors distinct with obesity such as age, race, hypertension and family history of glaucoma may also contribute to the association between type 2 diabetes and glaucoma.
Glaucoma may have link with diabetes
Posted April 18th 2012 at 10:09 am by admin
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