Diabetic retinopathy prevalence is growing due to increased rates of type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and obesity.

“especially type two diabetes with eating habits exercise habits contributing to a proliferation of some of the risk factors for type 2 diabetes metabolic syndrome obesity um we're unfortunately seeing a proliferation a growth in the number of people with diabetes and with the growth in diabetes unfortunately comes a growth of the complications of diabetes and one of the major complications of diabet abetes is damaged to the retina inside the eye and we call that diabetic retinopathy”