Cataract in diabetic patients is a major cause of blindness in developed and developing countries. Recent research studies have emphasized the role of the polyol pathway in the initiation of the disease process. Diabetic patients have a higher risk of complications after phacoemulsification cataract surgery compared to nondiabetics.This article overviews the pathogenesis of diabetic cataract and the clinical studies investigating the association between diabetes and cataract development.
Population-based studies have greatly increased the knowledge concerning the association between diabetes and cataract formation. A frequent complication of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes is diabetic retinopathy, which is considered the fifth most common cause of legal blindness. Tight control of hyperglycemia, blood lipids, and blood pressure has been shown to be beneficial to prevent its development…
