Visual impairment can be a sign of what dangerous disease

New research suggests that poor vision may be the first sign of prediabetes. Specialists from

Maastricht University spoke about their work at the meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes in Stockholm. Discuss

Scientists studied 3,500 people:21% of them had type 2 diabetes, 15% had prediabetes, and the remaining 64% were healthy. It turned out that nerve fiber damage in people with prediabetes was 8% higher, in diabetic patients it was 8% higher than in prediabetics, and 14% higher than in healthy people.

The severity of neuropathy correlated withhow long a person lived with diabetes and how high glycated hemoglobin and blood sugar levels were recorded two hours after a meal.