ArticleInternational journal of ophthalmology2012
Role of Mediterranean diet, tropical vegetables rich in antioxidants, and sunlight exposure in blindness, cataract and glaucoma among African type 2 diabetics.
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- Influence of Diet, Dietary Products and Vitamins on Age-Related Cataract Incidence: A Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2023Pooled it
- Correlation of Sunlight Exposure and Different Morphological Types of Age-Related Cataract.BioMed research international · 2021Pooled it
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- Nutritional Barriers to the Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet in Non-Mediterranean Populations.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Vitamin K and the Visual System-A Narrative Review.Nutrients · 2023Review
- Association Between Vitamin Deficiencies and Ophthalmological Conditions.Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2023Review
- ACE-Vitamin Index and Risk of Glaucoma: The SUN Project.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Dietary supplements in retinal diseases, glaucoma, and other ocular conditions.Journal of preventive medicine and hygiene · 2022Review
- Dietary Antioxidants, Macular Pigment, and Glaucomatous Neurodegeneration: A Review of the Evidence.Nutrients · 2019Review
- Abelmoschus esculentus (L.): Bioactive Components' Beneficial Properties-Focused on Antidiabetic Role-For Sustainable Health Applications.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Article
- Ocular complications of diabetes mellitus.World journal of diabetes · 2015Review
- Nutritional modulation of cataract.Nutrition reviews · 2014Review
- Effects of polymorphisms in vitamin E-, vitamin C-, and glutathione peroxidase-related genes on serum biomarkers and associations with glaucoma.Molecular vision · 2013Article
- The protective effect of phaseolus vulgaris on cataract in type 2 diabetes: a profitable hypothesis.Medical hypothesis, discovery & innovation ophthalmology journal · 2013Article
- Dietary patterns and odds of Type 2 diabetes in Beirut, Lebanon: a case-control study.Nutrition & metabolism · 2012Article
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Abstract
aimTo assess whether regular Mediterranean diet and regular intake of vegetables may reduce the risk of blindness, cataract, and glaucoma in these type 2 diabetics.
methodsA cross-sectional design was carried out among known black diabetics admitted at the diabetic clinics of Kinshasa, between October 2008 and March 2009. The Mediterranean-style dietary score (MSDPS) was used to characterize a Mediterranean-style dietary pattern in the study population using the Harvard semi quantitative FFQ adapted for Africa.
resultsFive hundred Type 2 diabetic patients were included in this study (48% of males; 40% aged ≥60 years). There was a significant association between blindness, cataract and aging; between blindness (P<0.05), cataract (P<0.05), glaucoma (P<0.05), and physical inactivity; between blindness (P<0.05), cataract (P<0.0001), glaucoma (P<0.01) and high SES, and a very significant association between blindness (P<0.0001), cataract (P<0.0001), glaucoma (P<0.0001) and exposure to sunlight. There was also a significant association between blindness, glaucoma, and male sex. Regular intake of Mediterranean diet, Brassica Rapa, beans, Abelmoschus, Musa acuminata reduced significantly the risk of blindness, cataract and glaucoma.
conclusionRegular intake of Mediterranean diet, Brassica Rapa, beans, Abelmoschus, and Musa acuminata may significantly reduce the risk of blindness or its major causes among type 2 diabetes mellitus in Africa.
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