EurekAlert! -- Philadelphia, PA, 2 April 2009 – Treatment with the glitazone class of diabetes drugs leads to a “modest” increase in the risk of diabetic macular edema (DME)—a common complication that can lead to vision loss, reports a study in the April issue of the American Journal of Ophthalmology (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ajo), published by Elsevier.
