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Caregivers beware! Symptoms you must watch out for in patients with diabetes.
Shriyansi Sen And Mahima Prasad • 3 years agoAs potential caregivers, one disease we must all be fluent in, is diabetes. Diabetes and it's related complications result in millions of deaths each year.
Eye complications that you should know about, if you live with diabetes.
Shriyansi Sen And Mahima Prasad • 3 years agoDiabetes creates complications in the eyes that are easily detected, and easily treated when caught early.
Are you a Diabetes Patient? Pay attention to your vision.
Shriyansi Sen And Mahima Prasad • 3 years agoGet yourself and your loved ones tested for Diabetes, and institute the annual eye exam in your family calendar.
How to prevent vision loss if you are a diabetes patient
Shriyansi Sen • 3 years agoDiabetes doesn’t just cause fatigue and irritability. It can cause real damage to your body. Diabetes, hypertension, or a combination of both, cause 80% of end-stage renal disease globally.
Diabetic Retinopathy is on the rise in young people. Here's how you can control it!
Shriyansi Sen • 3 years agoDiabetes increases your risk for many serious health problems. From kidney disease to lower limb and foot complications, nerve degeneration, bladder problems... it can wreak havoc on many organ systems5, especially the eyes.
Diabetic Retinopathy - Forewarned is Forearmed
Shriyansi Sen • 3 years agoThere were 74 million patients with diabetes in India in 2021, and the number is expected to grow to 93 million in 2030 and 124 million in 2045. Additionally, almost 39.3 million people in India are estimated to be patients with diabetes who are undiagnosed.
Fighting the good fight - India against Diabetic Retinopathy
Shriyansi Sen • 3 years agoA survey conducted in 21 Indian districts by AIIMS, University of Hyderabad and the National Programme for Control of Blindness and Visual Impairment has revealed that as many as 17% of patients with diabetes suffer from Retinopathy.
Scientists claim to have uses CRISPR for the first time to treat a patient who was blind
• 5 years agoThey said that it will take up to a month to see if this surgery worked and has restored the patient's vision.
Blue light from using screens in the dark could speed up blindness: Study
Ians • 7 years agoPhotoreceptor cells in the eye do not regenerate. When they're dead, they're gone for good.
SC tells states and UTs to 'scrupulously' follow law for disabled, seeks compliance reports
• 8 years agoThe Supreme Court on Monday asked all states to scrupulously follow the 2016 law on the rights of persons with disabilities and submit a compl