New Diabetic Eye Disease Research


Two therapies can be used to slow the progression of potentially blinding eye diseases in people with type 2 diabetes, according to new research. Researchers found that intensively monitoring and controlling blood sugar levels and using lipid and statin therapies reduced the damaging advances of the eye disease diabetic retinopathy.

Diabetic retinopathy is one of the most common causes of vision loss and blindness in non-elderly people. The eye disease occurs when blood vessels in the retina grow abnormally or become blocked, causing the retina to swell.

The ACCORD eye study found that controlling blood sugar levels to a near-normal level in people who had been long-diagnosed as diabetic, actively slowed and minimised the effects of the blinding eye disease. However, experts explain that using this therapy could put patients at a higher risk of developing dangerously low blood sugar levels that could cause health complications.

30th June 2010

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