While eye drops may help alleviate some symptoms of diabetic retinopathy, they don’t target the underlying blood vessel damage in your retina. Retinopathy is a possible complication of diabetes. At ...

High blood sugars have long been known to cause eye damage in diabetics. However, new research has found that low blood sugar may also contribute. The good news is that it also identified a way of ...

Eye injections are the only medication currently available to treat diabetes-related retinopathy. Modern eye injections are not painful and don’t cause many side effects. Diabetic retinopathy affects ...

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Diabetic retinopathy is a complication of diabetes caused by uncontrolled blood sugar levels damaging the blood vessels and eye tissue located at the retina. The condition occurs in patients with both ...

Artistic rendition of a diabetic mouse retina demonstrating retinal vasculature (yellow) with increased leakage (red) following insulin-induced transient episode of hypoglycemia (low glucose). In a ...

Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) is associated with reduced risk of diabetic retinopathy and proliferative diabetic retinopathy in type 1 diabetes patients. Language barriers and limited health ...

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) usually takes several years to develop. In many cases, it may take at least 5 years for the condition to develop after a diagnosis of diabetes. However, the onset, ...

Patients receiving uncomplicated phacoemulsification surgery for cataracts had greater increases in macular and choroidal thickness if they had early diabetic retinopathy without preoperative diabetic ...

American Diabetes Association advocate Serena Valenine is a Houston native currently living with a common eye disease: diabetic retinopathy. It results when the blood vessels of the retina are damaged ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece is part of a series dedicated to the eye and improvements in restoring vision. This piece also marks part ...

Scientists say they have determined that low blood sugar, or hypoglycemia, may promote a breakdown of the blood-retinal barrier, an important boundary that regulates the flow of nutrients, waste and ...