Adults with thyroid eye disease and diabetes have a higher prevalence of diplopia, strabismus and sight-threatening disease compared with those without diabetes, according to study findings published in Endocrine Practice.
“This study provides further evidence that thyroid eye disease is more severe in patients with diabetes. More frequent severity manifested in higher rates of optic neuropathy, perhaps because of greater optic nerve vulnerability stemming from diabetes-related vasculopathies,” Lissa Padnick-Silver, PhD, senior manager of medical affairs, publications and data