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    Short-Term Stability in Refractive Status Despite Large Fluctuations in Glucose Levels in Diabetes Mellitus Type 1 and 2

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    Huntjens, B; Charman, WN; Workman, H; Hosking, SL; O'Donnell, C
    Date
    2012-12-28
    Source Title
    PLOS ONE
    Publisher
    PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    HOSKING, SARAH
    Affiliation
    Optometry And Vision Sciences
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    Document Type
    Journal Article
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    Huntjens, B., Charman, W. N., Workman, H., Hosking, S. L. & O'Donnell, C. (2012). Short-Term Stability in Refractive Status Despite Large Fluctuations in Glucose Levels in Diabetes Mellitus Type 1 and 2. PLOS ONE, 7 (12), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0052947.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/32953
    DOI
    10.1371/journal.pone.0052947
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    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3532445
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    Abstract
    PURPOSE: This work investigates how short-term changes in blood glucose concentration affect the refractive components of the diabetic eye in patients with long-term Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. METHODS: Blood glucose concentration, refractive error components (mean spherical equivalent MSE, J0, J45), central corneal thickness (CCT), anterior chamber depth (ACD), crystalline lens thickness (LT), axial length (AL) and ocular aberrations were monitored at two-hourly intervals over a 12-hour period in: 20 T1DM patients (mean age ± SD) 38±14 years, baseline HbA1c 8.6±1.9%; 21 T2DM patients (mean age ± SD) 56±11 years, HbA1c 7.5±1.8%; and in 20 control subjects (mean age ± SD) 49±23 years, HbA1c 5.5±0.5%. The refractive and biometric results were compared with the corresponding changes in blood glucose concentration. RESULTS: Blood glucose concentration at different times was found to vary significantly within (p<0.0005) and between groups (p<0.0005). However, the refractive error components and ocular aberrations were not found to alter significantly over the day in either the diabetic patients or the control subjects (p>0.05). Minor changes of marginal statistical or optical significance were observed in some biometric parameters. Similarly there were some marginally significant differences between the baseline biometric parameters of well-controlled and poorly-controlled diabetic subjects. CONCLUSION: This work suggests that normal, short-term fluctuations (of up to about 6 mM/l on a timescale of a few hours) in the blood glucose levels of diabetics are not usually associated with acute changes in refractive error or ocular wavefront aberrations. It is therefore possible that factors other than refractive error fluctuations are sometimes responsible for the transient visual problems often reported by diabetic patients.
    Keywords
    Sensory Systems; Hearing; Vision; Speech and Their Disorders

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