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Drug-treated diabetic retinopathy population to quadruple by 2012

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, May 3rd, 2004

Decision Resources, Inc., finds that the drug-treated diabetic retinopathy population will quadruple by 2012.

"The availability of effective surgical treatments coupled with the near total lack of effective pharmacotherapy for diabetic retinopathy has kept drug-treated rates - and thus pharmaceutical sales for this disease - exceedingly low," said Kat Neumeyer, analyst at Decision Resources. "However, the launch of novel drug therapies will prompt dramatic increases in the drug- treated population, which will nearly quadruple in the major pharmaceutical markets (United States, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom)."

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