Diabetes drug lowers glaucoma risk along with blood sugar control in diabetics: Study
PHILADELPHIA - Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor (GLP-1R) agonists is a popular class of diabetes medications that regulate blood sugar and are commonly used to treat type 2 diabetes mellitus.
In addition they may also protect against glaucoma in diabetic patients, according to a new study led by researchers in the Scheie Eye Institute at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine. The findings were published in the British Journal of Ophthalmology.
The researchers looked at retrospective data of 1,961 diabetic patients who were new users of this class of drugs and matched them to 4,371 unexposed control subjects. After 150 days on average, 10 patients in the medicated group were newly diagnosed with glaucoma (0.5 percent) compared to 58 patients (1.3 percent) in the control group. The findings suggest that GLP-1 receptor agonists may decrease a diabetic patient's risk of developing glaucoma by half.
https://bjo.bmj.com/content/early/2021/08/18/bjophthalmol-2021-319232
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