Review Article

Cataract as Early Ocular Complication in Children and Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus

Table 1

Characteristics of studies and patients with early diabetic cataract in population of children and adolescents.

AuthorsCountryAge at cataract diagnosis (yrs)T1DM duration at diagnosis (yrs)HbA1c at T1DM diagnosis (%)Mean HbA1c (%)Morphology of cataractGender
female/male
Surgical treatmentNumber of patients

Phillip et al. [6]USA14017/PSC1/001
Alouf and Pascual [7]USA9022.2/S1/001
Datta et al. [8]UK11 to 140 to 115.1 to 21.2/PSC, S, C, D3/245
Montgomery and Batch [9]Australia9 to 160 to 137.2 to 15.26.5 to >14PSC, C8/189
Falck and Laatikainen [10]Finland9.1 to 17.50 to 3.9//PSC, S, DI5/166
Awan et al. [11]UK18010.5/C, D0/111
Wilson et al. [5]Multiple5 to 16.5///Multiple11/31214
Costagliola et al. [12]Italy5.3 to 13.20 to 0.112.8 to 14.5/PSC, S, D, DI0/333
Patel et al. [13]USA10017.913.4PSC, C, DI0/111
Skrabic et al. [14]Croatia16.80.215.511.7PSC1/011
Iafusco et al. [15]Italy5.5 to 150 to 0.212.8 to >148 to 11.6PSC, S, D, DI3/356
Uspal and Schapiro [16]USA130>14/D1/011
Jin et al. [17]China9 to 11030 to 3114.7 to 20.4PSC, S, C, D2/002
Goturu et al. [18]UK13.30.316.611.6PSC1/011
Geloneck et al. [3]USA7.5 to 180 to 157.7 to >147.3 to >14PSC, C, D/512
García García and García Robles [19]Spain12 to 130.5 to 1014 to 14.58.7 to 10S, C, DI1/112

Yrs: years; T1DM: type 1 diabetes mellitus; HbA1c: hemoglobin A1c; PSC: posterior subcapsular; S: snowflake; C: cortical; D: dense; DI: diffuse.