Diabetes and Vision
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- 2. This can be lost due to uncontrolled diabetes
- 8. escape of blood from a ruptured blood vessel (common in diabetic retinopathy)
- 9. This should be less than 2mmol/L
- 10. Percentage of individuals that have type one diabetes
- 14. Another word for sugar
- 15. the area of the retina responsible for central vision
- 16. opacities that result from the escape of plasma and white blood cells from blood vessels
- 17. This type of diabetes is the most common
- 18. a risk associated with prediabetes
- 19. This is more likely in children whose mothers had diabetes during pregnancy
- 21. Most of the food you eat is broken down into this
- 22. chronic disease where body doesn't produce insulin
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- 1. must be kept within a healthy range to reduce risk of diabetic retinopathy (DR)
- 3. the maximum percentage of sugar that should be in the blood
- 4. How many types of diabetes there are
- 5. when type 1 diabetes usually develops
- 6. the organ that produces insulin
- 7. This may affect the onset of type 2 diabetes
- 11. These are where the blood sugar goes in your body
- 12. the body turns food into this
- 13. High blood sugar levels but not yet type 2 diabetes
- 14. Temporary form of diabetes
- 16. swelling
- 20. a bad habit that must cease to prevent DR