{"id":2103,"date":"2024-06-24T16:19:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T16:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/cholesterol-lowering-drug-slows-progression-of-eye-disease-in-people-with-diabetes-clinical-trial\/"},"modified":"2024-06-24T16:19:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T16:19:15","slug":"cholesterol-lowering-drug-slows-progression-of-eye-disease-in-people-with-diabetes-clinical-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/cholesterol-lowering-drug-slows-progression-of-eye-disease-in-people-with-diabetes-clinical-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Cholesterol-lowering drug slows progression of eye disease in people with diabetes: Clinical trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Primary composite outcome of referable diabetic retinopathy or maculopathy, or treatment thereof, with intravitreal injection of medication, retinal laser therapy, or vitrectomy. The inset graph shows the same data on an expanded y axis. Credit: NEJM Evidence (2024). DOI: 10.1056\/EVIDoa2400179 The LENS trial has demonstrated that fenofibrate, a drug usually used to lower cholesterol, reduces the risk of progression of diabetic retinopathy by 27%. The results were announced at the American Diabetes Association Scientific Sessions and published in a paper titled, &#8220;Effect of Fenofibrate on Progression of Diabetic Retinopathy,&#8221; published <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/cholesterol-lowering-drug-slows-progression-of-eye-disease-in-people-with-diabetes-clinical-trial\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Primary composite outcome of referable diabetic retinopathy or maculopathy, or treatment thereof, with intravitreal injection of medication, retinal laser therapy, or vitrectomy. The inset graph shows the same data on an expanded y axis. Credit: NEJM Evidence (2024). DOI: 10.1056\/EVIDoa2400179 The LENS trial has demonstrated that fenofibrate, a drug usually used to lower cholesterol, reduces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}