Mamta Singh, Abhishek Anand, Bibhuti Prassan Sinha, Nagendra Prasad, Sujeet Mishra
BACKGROUND
India has emerged as the diabetes capital of the world. A large percentage of these patients have metabolically uncontrolled Diabetes Mellitus. High glucose level has deleterious effect on corneal endothelial health due to various mechanisms and is associated with changes in central corneal thickness (CCT). We intend to compare the CCT of established DM patients with normal population and correlate its impact with increasing diabetic population.
The objectives of the study were to evaluate the effect of diabetes mellitus on central corneal thickness (CCT) by comparing the CCT of diabetic and non-diabetic patients and association of CCT with duration of diabetes mellitus.
