21
February
2019
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22:30
Asia/Singapore

Diabetics who consume diet soft drinks have greater risk of retinopathy

A research team from Duke-NUS Medical School, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and an Australian health institution has found that diabetics who consume diet soft drinks are twice more at risk of developing diabetic retinopathy, a severe type of diabetic eye disease that can cause blindness.