COMPARATIVE STUDY OF DRY EYE IN DIABETIC AND NON DIABETIC PATIENTS IN TERTIARY CARE CENTRE OF KUMAON REGION OF UTTARAKHAND

Abstract

Type II diabetes mellitus is a major public health concern in this modern day. It is perhaps the most important non-infective epidemic to hit the globe in the present millennium. There are 425 million people with diabetes in the World. There will be 629 million people with diabetes in the World in 2045.Diabetes is fast gaining the status of a potential epidemic in India with more than 72 million diabetic individuals currently diagnosed

with the disease1.

Diabetes impacts almost all structures of the eye including eyelids, extra-ocular muscles, tear-film, cornea, iris, cranial nerves, and retina.