Diabetes: dim outlook
October 9, 2013
A new national report on
diabetic eye disease was released
this week ahead of World Sight Day
tomorrow, Thursday 10 October.
It highlights that almost all people
with type 1 diabetes and 60%
of patients with type 2 diabetes
will develop some form of eye
disease, much of which will result
in blindness, the most feared
complication of the disease, within
20 years of diagnosis.
Out of Sight – a report into
diabetic eye disease in Australia
(sponsored by Novartis Australia)
provides a comprehensive
overview of the impact of diabetic
eye disease by two of Australia’s
leading research institutes, the
Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes
Institute and the Centre for Eye
Research Australia (CERA).
Diabetes, the nation’s fastest
growing chronic disease, poses a
25 times greater risk of blindness
for the almost 1 million Australians
diagnosed with the disease as well
as the 700,000 who presently have
undiagnosed diabetes, than for the
general population.
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