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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Dopamine-restoring drugs already used to treat Parkinson's disease may also be beneficial for the treatment of diabetic retinopathy, a leading cause of blindness in adults, researchers have discovered.
The results were published in the Jan. 15 issue of Journal of Neuroscience.
Diabetic retinopathy affects more than a quarter of adults with diabetes and threatening the vision of more than 600,000 people in the United States.
Doctors had previously thought most of the impairment of vision in diabetic retinopathy came from damage to the blood vessels induced by high blood sugar, but had known that dopamine, a vital neurotransmitter in the brain, was also important in the retina.
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-01-avenue-diabetes-related-vision-problems.html
The results were published in the Jan. 15 issue of Journal of Neuroscience.
Diabetic retinopathy affects more than a quarter of adults with diabetes and threatening the vision of more than 600,000 people in the United States.
Doctors had previously thought most of the impairment of vision in diabetic retinopathy came from damage to the blood vessels induced by high blood sugar, but had known that dopamine, a vital neurotransmitter in the brain, was also important in the retina.
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-01-avenue-diabetes-related-vision-problems.html