Identification of Ocular Structural and Functional Markers for Prediabetes and Diabetes Mellitus

Abstract

he International Diabetes Federation (IDF) released an atlas with global facts and newlinefigures of Type I and II diabetes as well as best practices and with management newlineguidelines. The Atlas introduced in the year 2015, is the 7th edition and the recent edition newlineis the 9th edition, which has been introduced in 2019. The facts reported in 2015 are that newlinethere are 415 million people diagnosed with type II diabetes and the statistics of 9th newlineedition is in line with the predicted growth of 463 million people worldwide with newlinediabetes. The Atlas 2019 estimates that these numbers will grow to 578 million and 700 newlinemillion by 2030 and 2045 respectively. The Southeast Asia fact sheet further reports that newlinethere are 77 million people in India with diabetes mellitus newline