
04/17/2025
Vitamin D Shown to Stabilize Keratoconus in Adolescent Patients
Potential for disease progression is higher in patients with insufficient dietary levels, study suggests.
“We suggest that keratoconus is the local manifestation of a systemic disease, and we hypothesize that systemic inflammation, platelet activation and collagen degradation play a primary role in this process,” the authors proposed in their paper. Although considered a non-inflammatory corneal degeneration, keratoconus impacts the cornea’s structure and collagen’s organization.
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