Nearly 1.8 million New Yorkers have diabetes.
Controlling Blood Sugar May Prevent Retinopathy in Diabetes Patients
July 1, 2010
A new study shows that, even for people who already have diabetes, controlling blood sugar and cholesterol can reduce the risk of developing eye problems.
Keeping blood sugar close to normal and taking drugs to hold down blood levels of cholesterol and other fats can help people with diabetes avoid the potentially blinding eye disease retinopathy, researchers report.
Until now, it hadn’t been clear whether strict control of blood sugar and fats, or lipids, could still deter retinopathy in patients who had been diabetic for as long as a decade.
“The question was whether the horse was out of the barn for this group,” says study coauthor Emily Chew, an ophthalmologist at the National Eye Institute in Bethesda, Md. It turns out, she says, “that you can reduce the risk of retinopathy in these patients.”
Full article: http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2010/06/30/controlling-blood-sugar-may-prevent-eye-problems-in-diabetes-patients.html
