With a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention predicting that diabetic retinopathy will triple from 5.5 million in 2005 to 16 million in 2050, improved treatments are urgently needed for this leading cause of blindness in working-age people
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Although health professionals have had success in treating diabetic retinopathy, two forms of the disease - proliferative diabetic retinopathy and diabetic macular edema - still are the leading causes of vision loss and blindness among working age adults in the developed world.
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