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Offers resources on blindness, or vision loss, including signs and symptoms, causes, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of vision loss.
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a leading cause of adult blindness in the industrialized world. It is a complication of diabetes that results from damage to small blood vessels in the eye. This damage to blood vessels affects the nourishment of the retina which leads to visual loss. This condition can occur in both type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
Source: Public Health Agency of Canada
A variety of disorders that affect the eye and the visual system may cause low vision.
Source: Canadian Ophthalmological Society
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