Alteraciones oculares en diabetes

Abstract

Many ocular alterations are you caused by the biochemistry changes generated in the Diabetes. The diabetes is a pathological company with multiple complications, being the ocular damage one of the most important, since visual problems are presented and retinopathy. Approximately the 25% of the diabetic they generate blindness by alterations in retaining what causes disability in the patients and diminishes its quality of life. The retinopathy is characteristic of persons with diabetes type 1 and 2, according to studies carried out by Dinne S et al, 1998 in the United States is the main cause of blindness in adults. In Colombia itself not investigations in strict sense have been carried out where the association among parameters be sought biochemistry, genetic, ophthalmologic and optometric. The investigations carried out are focused in a monitoring refractive to certain patients that present diabetes, but themselves not these alterations they have associated and other with biological scoreboards, consequently, is important to carry out studies where be correlated aspects biochemistry, genetic, ophthalmologic and optometric to generate measures that permit to improve the conditions of the persons that have this pathology. This revision intends to present some aspects biochemistry related to ocular alterations.