May 15th 2024
New analyses show adults aged ≥65 years old are at about 30% increased risk of hypertension when diagnosed with diabetes mellitus.
SSRI Use Increases Risk of Post-Stroke Mortality in Patients with Diabetes
An analysis of population-based medical databases has found that strokes are more likely to prove fatal in diabetic patients who use selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) than in diabetic patients who do not.
Ranibizumab Reduces Retinopathy Severity in Patients with Diabetic Macular Edema
After 12 or 24 monthly injections, ranibizumab, one of three currently available vascular endothelial growth factor antibodies, caused regression of diabetic retinopathy (DR) in at least 75% of patients who had diabetic macular edema and whose DR severity put them at the highest risk of progression to proliferative DR.