Vitamin D and Diabetic Eye Disease

Returning from the 2010 Academy of Ophthalmology retina sub-specialty meeting I wanted to share this summary by Medscape Medical News. This validates our testing of patients with diabetes to understand how to treat them better. We started using this metric over 5 years ago and has proven very useful.

 

We are currently conducting a study observing if Vitamin D supplementation will improve diabetic eye disease (diabetic retinopathy) without additional laser treatment or intra-ocular injections.

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