Long-term dopamine treatment may delay onset of diabetic retinopathy

DENVER — Long-term dopamine treatment may be an effective intervention for patients with diabetic retinopathy, according to a presenter here.
“It’s a difficult thing to study because in people it takes a while for diabetic retinopathy to develop,” Rachel S. Allen, PhD, told Healio/OSN at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology meeting. “One way to look at this treatment is to do a retrospective study.”
Allen and colleagues conducted a retrospective analysis of medical records of veterans with diabetes to determine if long-term levodopa

DENVER — Long-term dopamine treatment may be an effective intervention for patients with diabetic retinopathy, according to a presenter here.
“It’s a difficult thing to study because in people it takes a while for diabetic retinopathy to develop,” Rachel S. Allen, PhD, told Healio/OSN at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology meeting. “One way to look at this treatment is to do a retrospective study.”
Allen and colleagues conducted a retrospective analysis of medical records of veterans with diabetes to determine if long-term levodopa