Scientists from the Anglia Ruskin University (United Kingdom) ensure that people with diabetes are twice as likely to develop cataracts as the general population, with a relative risk that is higher between people aged 45 and 54.
This follows from the results of a study published in the magazine 'Eye', in which the medical records of a total of 56,510 patients with diabetes of more than 40 years were analyzed, among which 20.4 cases of cataracts were diagnosedFor every thousand people, when among the general population this eye disease has a rate of 10.8 cases per thousand inhabitants.
In addition, they saw that diabetics between 45 and 54 were much more likely to develop the disease.Specifically, diabetics of 45 to 49 years were 4.6 times more likely while those who were 50 to 54 years had a risk 5.7 times higher than the healthy population of the same age.
In the study they used data from the study 'Clinical Practice Research Datalink', which covers about 7 percent of the United Kingdom population and is representative in terms of age, sex and geographical distribution.
"The report has shown that having diabetes doubles the risk of being diagnosed with cataractparticipated in the study.
In fact, from these data the need to launch an early detection program in diabetic patients to identify and treat this or other ocular pathologies is revealed.