Caviness Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Director of the UNC Diabetes Care Center. “Semaglutide has been a main stay of our efforts to reduce heart attack and stroke in people with diabetes.

The use of semaglutide in patients with diabetes was associated with a significantly increased risk for nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION) compared with those taking drugs for ...

More information: Alan Y. Hsu et al, Semaglutide and Nonarteritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy Risk Among Patients With Diabetes, JAMA Ophthalmology (2025). DOI: 10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2025.0349 ...

Semaglutide use associated with increased risk for NAION at the two-, three-, and four-year time point from the index date. (HealthDay News) — For patients with diabetes, semaglutide use is ...

Perspectives from Caroline M. Apovian, MD; Susan P. Mollan, MBChB, FRCOphth, PhD In patients with diabetes, semaglutide use was associated with an increased risk for nonarteritic anterior ischemic ...

Although only association and not causality can be inferred, this study showed that, among patients who had diabetes, an elevated risk of NAION was associated with semaglutide use compared with ...

Diabetes management shouldn’t be focused narrowly on blood sugar levels, but must concurrently work at protecting cardiac and renal health too, states a recent study that found daily oral ...

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Semaglutide, the medication better known as Ozempic, reduces the symptoms of a condition that can lead to lower limb amputations in people with diabetes, according to a new study that reinforces ...

The researchers found that patients with diabetes taking semaglutide had an absence of NAION risk at the one-month, three-month, six-month, and one-year time points after the index date. However ...

Semaglutide ... without diabetes. Among these adults, the mean age was 67 years, the mean BMI was 32.6 kg/m 2, more than half (56%) were male, and 71% were White. Based on the model, over 3 ...