Diabetes and Diabetic Eye Disease

Abstract

As we all know, diabetes can lead to diabetic eye diseases. At present, we have detailed understanding of many treatment measures for eye diseases caused by diabetes. The downside is that ophthalmologists lack an understanding of diabetes, and this limitation puts us in a passive state in the prevention and treatment of diabetic eye diseases. When thinking from the perspective of integrative medicine, we will find a lot of problems that need to be demonstrated and elaborated systematically: For example, why do some people suffer from severe eye diseases while others have healthy eyes with the same level of diabetes control? What kind of eye diseases are directly related to diabetes? What is the exact pathogenesis of diabetic retinopathy? What is the relationship between diabetic eye diseases and other complications of diabetes, such as diabetic nephropathy? Only when we are aware of the existence of these problems and through analyzing these problems using the theory of integrative medicine and through integrating the advanced theories and advanced technologies of all relevant disciplines are we likely to have a comprehensive understanding of diabetic eye diseases, properly prevent the situations where interventions are made only when diabetic eye diseases have occurred from happening, be able to tell the diseases of the whole body of a patient through ocular manifestations, change our passive state to an active state and change our localized view to a view in the prevention and treatment of diabetic eye diseases, and achieve early intervention and effective treatment of diabetic retinopathy in clinical practice in order to reduce the rate of blindness.