Worse glucose status and higher glycemia levels, even at the prediabetes stage, are associated with corneal nerve damage, according to findings presented at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes annual meeting.
“Neurodegeneration in diabetes is a hormone complication. There are two types of neurodegeneration: peripheral neurodegeneration like in cases of diabetic neuropathy and can be observed by skin biopsy; central neurodegeneration like in cases of dementia and could be observed by MRI,” Sara B. A. Mokhtar, a PhD student in the department of internal medicine at