(جامعة النيلين - مركز النيلين الطبي, 2017-02) Saleem M. A
Abstract: Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a chronic illness with prevalence of 171 million
worldwide; as a result most of body organs and particularly the eye sensitive tissues are
affected. Recently diabetes was termed as one of main causes of blindness. There are
about 126 million people worldwide affected by diabetic retinopathy (DR) with 37
million patients suffering vision threatening DR. However, most of people are unaware of
ocular complication due to long term DM.
