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Anti-VEGF Shot Improves Sight for Diabetes Patients

Posted: Monday, April 16, 2012

Advantages in improved visual acuity seen with bevacizumab injections are maintained long term for diabetic macular edema patients compared with improvements from laser surgery.

Retinopathy Can Signal Impending Cognitive Decline

Posted: Monday, March 26, 2012

In a group of healthy older women, retinopathy was associated with worsening cognitive function over 10 years and with larger ischemic lesion volumes on brain imaging.

Why Some Diabetes Patients Have No Complications Even After 50 Years

Posted: Sunday, April 10, 2011

Some people who have survived diabetes for many decades exhibit remarkably few complications, a discovery that points toward the presence of protective factors that guard against the disease's effects.

Glycemic Levels Predict Risk of Retinopathy

Posted: Sunday, February 27, 2011

Both short- and long-term measures of blood glucose can be used to predict the risk of retinopathy.

Study Reveals How Omega 3's Work in Preventing Several Forms of Blindness

Posted: Sunday, February 20, 2011

A follow-up study from Children's Hospital Boston, now reveals exactly how omega-3's provide protection, and provides reassurance that widely used COX-inhibiting drugs like aspirin and NSAIDs don't negate their benefit.

Why Some Diabetes Patients Escape Complications

Posted: Saturday, January 29, 2011

Much research has been carried out on why diabetes patients develop complications. Now researchers are asking the question the other way around. They want to know why some diabetic patients do not develop complications. What is it that protects them?

Fifty Years with Diabetes and No Retinopathy

Posted: Wednesday, November 03, 2010

Many long-term survivors with diabetes show little or no progression of retinopathy after a certain point, and this resistance apparently has nothing to do with glycemic control, a researcher found.

Computers Effectively Detect Diabetes-Related Eye Problems

Posted: Sunday, May 23, 2010

People with diabetes have an increased risk of blindness, yet nearly half of the approximately 23 million Americans with diabetes do not get an annual eye exam to detect possible problems. New methods can now help in screening for retinopathy.

Diabetic Macular Edema Improves with New Treatment

Posted: Sunday, May 09, 2010

Patients with diabetic macular edema saw more improvement when intravitreal ranibizumab (Lucentis) was added to photocoagulation laser treatment than with laser alone, according to results of a National Eye Institute-sponsored study.

Eye Disease Linked to Weakened Brain Power in People with Diabetes

Posted: Sunday, March 21, 2010

Diabetic retinopathy, the leading cause of blindness in the working-age population, could be associated with poorer memory and diminished brain power in people with Type 2 diabetes, according to new research.