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A study assessed the association between levels of physical activity (PA) and the presence of cataracts in 17,777 people aged 15–69 years
Patients between 50 and 90 years, scheduled for cataract surgery, were selected. Nuclear and cortical cataract were graded and patients grouped having no cataract, pure cortical, mixed or pure nuclear cataract.
Researchers working to understand the biochemistry of cataract formation have made a surprising finding.
A protein that was long believed to be inert actually has an important chemical function that protects the lens of the eye from cataract formation.
To better understand the true benefit of cataract surgery to patients' quality of life, researchers in Australia tested the driving performance of 44 patients using a driving simulator to test patients' vision before and after cataract surgery.
Using human stem cell models, researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine found they could analyze deficits within cells damaged by glaucoma, with the potential to use this information to develop new strategies to slow the disease process.
Glaucoma is an eye disease where vision is lost due to damage to the optic nerve.
Glaucoma is an age related disease; a person’s chance of developing glaucoma significantly increases after the age of 50. Alarmingly, 1 in 2 sufferers do not know they have the disease. Loss of sight is usually gradual, with a considerable amount of peripheral vision being lost before the person is aware of any problem.
People with Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome (OSAS), a disorder characterized by repetitive episodes of paused and shallow breathing during sleep, are approximately ten times more likely to develop glaucoma. Is there an increase in Intraocular Pressure (IOP) during these episodes of paused breathing, or is it something else altogether?
Ocular surface disease is a common co-morbidity in glaucoma, affecting around 59% of glaucoma patients. In addition, approximately 36% of these glaucoma patients have significant Ocular Surface Disease requiring some form of treatment.
Researchers at the University of South Florida have discovered a novel feedback pathway from the brain to the eye that modulates eye pressure -- a significant advancement in the effort to diagnose and treat glaucoma. Glaucoma is associated with increased pressure in the eye due to a reduce ability of the eye to maintain proper fluid drainage.
It is important to measure the patient’s baseline IOP more than once without treatment. The Preferred Practice Pattern assumes that “the measured pretreatment pressure range contributed to optic nerve damage and is likely to cause additional damage in the future.”
Although symptoms of DED are not equivalent to those of other painful ocular disorders (e.g., scleritis) in character or severity, using the word “painful” reminds us that nerve activation underlies symptoms.
It is speculated that more than 20 million individuals have DED in Japan because of a rapid increase in the application and total time spent in front of visual display terminal (VDT) equipment, including smartphone use.
Using tear osmolarity and MMP-9 as the basis of an ocular surface disease treatment algorithm
The symptom severity of patients with dry eye disease (DED) varies over a 24-hour period. It is typically worse upon waking than later in the morning and deteriorates towards the evening.
Dry eye disease is actually an impressively complex condition that significantly affects patients' quality of life. You can improve your care of patients with this disease by addressing these five common myths.
Dry eye disease is actually an impressively complex condition that significantly affects patients' quality of life.
Dry eye can slow a person’s reading speed by an average of 30 words per minute and can make it difficult to read for more than about 30 minutes. Listen for more..
Sleep quality may play a role in the development of dry eye disease (DED), and it may indirectly aggravate anxiety and depression. Listen for more..
Study finds it can inhibit function of the lacrimal gland.
A long-term, high-fat diet may reduce the lacrimal gland’s tear secretion ability, which in turn could cause dry eye, a new study claims.
The investigation, presented at ARVO.