Children Diagnosed With Type 2 Diabetes Twice As Likely As Children With Type 1 Diabetes To Develop Serious Vision Complications

Children who are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes (T2D) are twice as likely as children diagnosed with type 1 diabetes (T1D) to develop serious vision complications of retinopathy within 15 years of diagnosis. The risk of diabetic retinopathy was 88% greater in those with T2D than T1D within the first 15 years of disease diagnosis. Retinopathy is a disease of the retina which results in impairment or loss of vision, and includes conditions of rapidly increasing diabetic retinopathy, diabetic macular edema (swelling or fluid accumulation under a specific area of the retina), visually significant cataracts, and requiring removal of a . . .