Myopia and Early Onset Type 2 Diabetes: A Nationwide Cohort Study.

Alon PeledItamar RazInbar ZuckerEstela DerazneJacob MegreliOrit Pinhas-HamielAdi Einan-LifshitzYair MoradEran PrasMiri LutskiTali Cukierman-YaffeOfri MosenzonDorit TzurAmir TiroshHertzel C GersteinArnon AfekGilad Twig

Published in: The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2021)

For women, myopia in adolescence was associated with a significantly increased risk for incident T2D in young adulthood, in a severity-dependent manner. This finding may support the role of insulin resistance in myopia pathogenesis.

Keyphrases

early onset
type diabetes
late onset
depressive symptoms
optic nerve
cardiovascular disease
polycystic ovary syndrome
insulin resistance
pregnancy outcomes
optical coherence tomography
cervical cancer screening