Glaucoma Connected With diabetes

Type 2 diabetes has been linked with primary open angle glaucoma (POAG). According to the renowned names of Harvard Medical School, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, POGA is a general form of all glaucoma.

According to their recent study, they concluded that type 2 diabetes is linked with an increased risk of glaucoma. The journal Ophthalmology has published the news

Obesity may lead to type 2 diabetes epidemic but at the same time, it seems that factors associated with obesity such as age, race, hypertension and family history of glaucoma may also result to the association between type 2 diabetes and glaucoma.