We all have our fears related to diabetes, and my biggest one is eye disease (retinopathy). All my diabetes life I’ve heard scary statistics about eye disease and diabetes. Many times I have heard the message that some form of eye disease is basically unavoidable with diabetes. Sorry to be cranky, but I disagree with that attitude. I prefer the one where we say that there are things we can do to lower our risk for eye disease.
I just read this report about the rate of diabetes-related eye disease rising dramatically over the next ten years. This is based on the prediction that many, many more people will have diabetes ten years from now. But there is one teeny, tiny line in there that says based on more effective approaches to managing diabetes, the amount of eye disease won’t increase at the same rate as diabetes itself. So that, my friends, is good news.