Diabetes mellitus (DM) is one of the key medical and social problems in most countries of the world, which is one of the main priorities of national health programs [Dedov I.I., 2010; Suntsov Yu.I. et al., 2011]. Purpose: to study gender characteristics of morphometric indicators of the light-refracting parts of the eye in children and adolescents with type I diabetes mellitus. Materials and methods: Data from a survey of the morphometric parameters of the light-refracting parts of the eye in children with diabetes mellitus, 60 children from 7 to 18 years old, were analyzed for the period from 2021-2023, and 30 children with diabetes mellitus and 30 healthy children (comparison group) were examined. age and gender. Conclusions: Regardless of the severity of the disease, reactive-dystrophic pathological changes in these eye parameters were identified as a result of diabetes mellitus.

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