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.
Around 50 per cent of diabetics had incurable vision problems whereas a third of non-diabetics had similar non-treatable conditions.
