The lawsuit said about four months later, Engel was diagnosed with nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy, or NAION, a condition in which a loss of blood flow to the optic nerve causes ...

Researchers conducted a retrospective cohort study (October 2019 - December 2023) utilizing a global electronic health registry to evaluate the risk for NAION among patients with diabetes who were ...

The higher risk of developing the sight-threatening eye problem known as nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy, or NAION, did not appear during patients’ first year of treatment with ...

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 ...

However, at the two-year, three-year, and four-year time points from the index date, those taking semaglutide had an increased risk for NAION (hazard ratios, 2.39, 2.44, and 2.05, respectively).