Study: Diabetes May Not Increase Risk of Eye Disease

It may not be obvious that Diabetes patients will have an increased risk of developing eye disease, revealed a new study led by Dr Jennifer Sun, at the Beetham Eye Institute at Joslin Diabetes Center. However, this claim is against general medical opinion.

The research claims that Diabetes patients may even be protected against proliferative diabetic retinopathy.

Study

97 patients who had lived with Diabetes for over 50 years were analyzed.

Results

The majority of them escaped vision loss despite the extremely long duration of the disease.

Dr Jennifer Sun said that this data may help identify other factors that protect against retinopathy complications.

For those who opt for eye therapies like intravitreous injection and chemotherapy drugs, another study revealed that the therapies do not open risk for heart disease. This study was led by Dr Lesley Curtis and colleagues at the Duke University School of Medicine in North Carolina.