Sentences with phrase «eye complications»

«Current treatment options for eye complications associated with Graves» disease are limited,» Banga said.

With the rate of diabetes increasing dramatically worldwide, many individuals will be at risk for vision loss from diabetic eye complications and DME is a major global health concern,» says Jennifer K. Sun, M.D., M.P.H., a member of the study research team and writing committee, and an Investigator in the Section on Vascular Biology, an ophthalmologist in Beetham Eye Institute at Joslin and an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School.

Like many people with diabetes, Kathy Davis, 51, a registered nurse in suburban Toledo, Ohio, never experienced any symptoms to warn her of eye complications.

This National Diabetes Month, there is some good news for people with eye complications from diabetes.

Among those who have Graves» disease, more than half develop eye complications, according to the study's lead author, J. Paul Banga, PhD, of King's College London School of Medicine in the United Kingdom.

With this new knowledge, investigators aim to accelerate the process of healing and repair in damaged corneas to ultimately reverse the effects of diabetes - induced eye complications.

Cigarette smokers also are more likely to develop thyroid eye complications of Graves» disease, and treatments for those eye problems are less effective in smokers.

Additionally, the Beatson gift will accelerate research about ways to detect and prevent diabetic eye complications, continuing Joslin's unsurpassed record of discoveries in understanding, preventing and treating this common problem.

Researchers have developed the first animal model simulating the eye complications associated with the thyroid condition Graves» disease, a breakthrough that could pave the way for better treatments, according to a recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's journal Endocrinology.

You could also be prepared to the occurrence of common maladies of that breed such as joints ailments, eye complications, heart disorders or other metabolic problems such as diabetes.

Some complications you may experience after having diabetes for a many years are neuropathy (damage to the nerves, most commonly affecting the legs and feet), eye complications, and heart disease.