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Does diabetes cause blindness?
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Yes, potential: Diabetes can cause kidney failure, peripheral nerve damage, and retinopathy, visual issues. Could blindness occur? If not treated aggressively, perhaps. Laser surgeries are beneficial as well as good medical management.
Answered 11/17/2012
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Yes: The changes to small arterioles in organs such as retina in diabetes meletitus can lead to blindness from several causes. Regular ophthalmological examinations are absolutely necessary in the management of diabetes. This is the same as the cause for diabetic kidney disease.
Answered 11/17/2012
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