Eye-Wearable Device Can Spot Diabetes-Related Condition
The condition progressively affects the autonomic nerves controlling vital organs like the heart and gastrointestinal system. This can lead to problems like fainting, incontinence, nausea, heart arrhythmias and an increased risk of bacterial infection.
Detecting someone's asymptomatic diabetic autonomic neuropathy early and treating it properly may lead to far better health outcomes for them.
Currently, the condition is often not detected until moderate nerve damage and organ dysfunction are present.
"To diagnose, doctors rely on observing changes in digestive speed, heart rate and blood pressure to detect diabetic autonomic neuropathy but this limits their ability to make a diagnosis early on," Ou-Yang added.
Monitoring the pupils of people with diabetes may be a better approach, the findings, appeared in the journal Applied Optics, showed.
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