{"id":525,"date":"2022-06-14T10:44:03","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T15:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visiblybettereyecare.com\/blog\/?p=525"},"modified":"2022-06-14T10:44:03","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T15:44:03","slug":"led-contact-lenses-to-treat-diabetic-retinopathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visiblybettereyecare.com\/blog\/led-contact-lenses-to-treat-diabetic-retinopathy\/","title":{"rendered":"LED Contact Lenses to Treat Diabetic Retinopathy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diabetes is a long-term chronic disease with many complications, the longer a patient suffers from diabetes, the higher the risk of developing retinopathy which can gradually lead to a decline in vision and even to blindness.<\/p>\n<p>A POSTECH research team led by Professor Sei Kwang Hahn and Ph.D. candidate Geon-Hui Lee (Department of Materials Science and Engineering) in collaboration with Dr. Sangbaie Shin of PHI BIOMED Co. has recently developed a smart contact lens-type wearable device to prevent diabetic retinopathy and treat it in its early stages by irradiating 120 \u00b5W far red\/LED light to the retina. This technology for smart LED contact lens has attracted a great deal of attention for various ophthalmologic diseases.<\/p>\n<p>The current treatment options for Diabetic retinopathy are highly invasive repeated therapeutic injections to the eyeball or thousands of small burns made with a laser to destroy capillaries near the edges of retina under anesthesia. Both procedures are considered highly painful for the patient, so not ideal.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-526 alignright\" alt=\"Diabetic Retinopathy\" src=\"http:\/\/visiblybettereyecare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Diabetic-Retinopathy.jpg\" width=\"195\" height=\"103\" \/>Through the study with diabetic animal, the researchers confirmed that the diabetic retinopathy did not appear in animals that wore the smart contact lenses for 15 minutes 3 times a week for a total of 8 weeks. In contrast, the animals that did not wear the lenses showed retinopathic conditions. The safety and effectiveness of the lenses were also confirmed by the histological analysis of the cornea and retina.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This study has demonstrated the feasibility of a lens-type wearable device for the applications not only to monitoring oxygen saturation, heart beating rate, and ophthalmologic diseases, but also to treating depression, insomnia, neuronal diseases and more,&#8221; remarked Professor Sei Kwang Han who led the study.<\/p>\n<p>So the future is looking bright indeed for not only diabetics, but suffers of depression, insomnia and many other conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diabetes is a long-term chronic disease with many complications, the longer a patient suffers from diabetes, the higher the risk of developing retinopathy which can gradually lead to a decline in vision and even to blindness. A POSTECH research team &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/visiblybettereyecare.com\/blog\/led-contact-lenses-to-treat-diabetic-retinopathy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vision-improvement","category-vision-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visiblybettereyecare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visiblybettereyecare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visiblybettereyecare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visiblybettereyecare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visiblybettereyecare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/visiblybettereyecare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visiblybettereyecare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visiblybettereyecare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visiblybettereyecare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}