Despite an increasing prevalence of diabetes, both the prevalence and incidence of visual impairment caused by diabetic retinopathy have fallen and shifted to older age, according to 40-year data from Finland.
“A significant number of patients with type 2 diabetes consider loss of vision the worst complication of the disease,” Petri K.M. Purola, MSc, a doctoral researcher in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology at Tampere University in Finland, and colleagues wrote in study background. “As the number and life expectancy of people living with diabetes increases in the