Diabetes and Vision

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