The prevalence of diabetic retinopathy among children and adolescents with type 2 diabetes greatly increases 5 years after diabetes diagnosis, according to findings from a systematic review and meta-analysis.
“These findings indicate that the retina is an early target of type 2 diabetes in children in the early years after diagnosis,” M. Constantine Samaan, MD, MSc, staff physician in the division of pediatric endocrinology at McMaster Children’s Hospital and associate professor in the department of pediatrics at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, told Healio. “This