Abstract
Introduction: Open angle Glaucoma is one of the causes of blindness in diabetic patients. Whether diabetes is a risk factor for angle closure glaucoma also is less thoroughly studied. Objectives: To assess the angle of anterior chamber in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Materials and Method: 125 patients (250 eyes) who met the inclusion criteria were taken up for the study. Patients of both sexes and more than 40 years of age with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus who do not come under the exclusion criteria were included. Results: In subjects with duration of diabetes <5 years, Grade 4 angle was found in 47.41% of eyes which was comparatively more than the other grades. When the duration of Diabetes was 5-10 years, 40% of the eyes had Grade 4 angle and 37.27% had Grade 3 angle. In subjects with >10 years duration of diabetes, 33.33% had Grade 3 angle. Grade 2 and Grade 4 angles were of equal distribution with 29.16% and Grade 1 was found to be less. The association of Grade 1 and Grade 3 angle with severe non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy was found to be statistically significant. Whereas, in patients with mild diabetic retinopathy and in moderate non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy Grade 4 angle is statistically significant. Conclusion: This study thus concludes the grade of angle of the anterior chamber decreases as the diabetic retinopathy advances.
Highlights
Open angle Glaucoma is one of the causes of blindness in diabetic patients
Most previous studies were conducted on Caucasians and have found the association between diabetes and open angle glaucoma [1,2,3]
There is some correlation between the width of angle of anterior chamber and diabetes mellitus which has been recognized in recent times
Summary
Open angle Glaucoma is one of the causes of blindness in diabetic patients. Whether diabetes is a risk factor for angle closure glaucoma is less thoroughly studied. Objectives: To assess the angle of anterior chamber in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Materials and Method: 125 patients (250 eyes) who met the inclusion criteria were taken up for the study Patients of both sexes and more than 40 years of age with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus who do not come under the exclusion criteria were included. Whether diabetes is a risk factor for angle closure glaucoma is less clear and less thoroughly studied. This study is done to prove the existing correlation of anterior chamber angle width with diabetes mellitus, helping in an early diagnosis of angle closure and preventing its complications
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