[Diabetic lentopathy].
The authors report on lens opacities in 473 healthy children and in 371 children with type I diabetes mellitus. Only 11 percent of the healthy children had lens changes, whereas they were found in 65.6 percent of the children with diabetes mellitus. A large number of specific lens alterations were observed in the diabetic group. Examinations in the children with diabetes mellitus revealed that both the quality of metabolism and the duration of the disease influence the development of lens opacities, whereas age plays only a small part. On the basis of the study reported here a new classification of diabetic lentopathy is suggested.
D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D002386:Cataract / Q000473:pathology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007908:Lens, Crystalline / Q000473:pathology; D012306:Risk
Diabetische Lentopathie.