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Risk factors include age (usually affects people over 50), diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, sleep apnea, and anatomical predispositions such as a small cup-to-disc ratio
Starting dose and escalation speed The standard escalation moves 2.5mg every four weeks
To this end, HIF-1 and HNFs have been shown to target DPP-4 expression [35]
One limitation of our study is that we only used male mice