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Diabetes and how you vision the landmarks

Diabetes and how you vision the landmarks

OVER 4.9 million people in the UK have diabetes, which include 7 per cent of Londoners with the condition, and Harrow having the most prevalence of 10 per cent.

Moreover, Bradford City has the highest percentage of people with diabetes in England at 11.14 per cent, a analysis done by Lenstore has found. While, Hammersmith and Fulham have the lowest prevalence of this condition at 3.62 per cent.


Diabetes can impact your vision and the symptoms could be from wavy and blurred vision to floaters and even permanent vision loss. The study visualises how the UK's most iconic landmarks might look with diabetes.

Wavy vision

High blood sugar levels can cause the lens of your eye to swell, which as a result can cause both your vision to become distorted and make you see the iconic locations like the following. The effects of this can be both short and long-term.

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Blurred vision

Diabetes can cause blurred vision both short and long-term. When short-term it is often a result of fluid moving in and out of the eye as a result of high blood sugar levels, which then can cause the lens to swell. As the lens is the part that focuses on the light, this is where the blurred sight emerges from.

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Long-term effects of blurred vision often come from uncontrolled diabetes conditions and is a result of high blood sugar levels damaging small blood vessels over a period of time. As a result, the retina is affected causing you to experience blurred vision.

Floaters

Eye floaters sometimes go unnoticed, however, it’s important to watch out for them, appearing as white or translucent visual blockers that come and go, and move around within your vision. These floaters can often be a symptom of a more serious diabetic-related eye condition.

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Colour-loss

Colour vision loss or alteration effects is known to impact the vision of people with diabetes. It is particularly known to affect blue-yellow colour vision and worsens with the severity of other related diabetes eye conditions such as diabetic retinopathy.

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Vision loss

While diabetes does not cause blindness, it increases your chance of developing serious eye conditions such as diabetic retinopathy which over time can lead to a permanent loss of vision if left untreated.

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