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Please help! what is the effect of blood sugar level on eye refraction index?
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Increases: High blood sugars cause the lens to swell making it bend light more. This causes a shift in the glasses prescription toward more nearsighted. This process reverses when the blood sugars normalize.
Answered 1/27/2014
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