Treatment of Graves’ orbitopathy with statins in combination with glucocorticoids shows benefits among people with — and even without — high cholesterol, results from a new randomized clinical trial show. “Our results [indicate] that adding atorvastatin to intravenous glucocorticoids seems…
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Caffeine May Raise Risk for Inherited Glaucoma
People who drink a lot of caffeine have a higher risk of glaucoma, but only if their genes already make them susceptible to the eye disease, researchers say. Dr Louis Pasquale People with a parent or sibling diagnosed with glaucoma…
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Aflibercept Won’t Help Vision in Early Diabetic Retinopathy
Intravitreal injections with aflibercept (Eylea) don’t improve the visual acuity of people with nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy (NPDR), researchers say. The treatments do reduce the risk for center-involved diabetic macular edema and proliferative diabetic retinopathy, however, said Adam R. Glassman, MS,…
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