- Meeting physical activity guidelines or being fit decreases the risk of developing glaucoma, according to the July 6 online Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise.
- There appears to be an independent and protective association between dietary intake of flavonoids and the likelihood of having AMD, reveals the July 6 online The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
- Diabetes, or higher long-term hyperglycemia, was linked with higher IOP, reveals April’s Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. The study’s researchers say this finding may have pathophysiologic significance with respect to the risk of glaucoma among diabetic patients.
- Stress is both an effect and cause of vision loss, creating a vicious cycle of a downward spiral, in which initial vision loss causes stress, which further accelerates vision loss, creating even more stress and so forth, reveals May’s EPMA Journal. Given this finding, the study’s researchers suggest practitioners consider prescribing stress reduction and relaxation techniques for patients.
- Children who have amblyopia and strabismus took longer than their peers without these conditions to mark answers on multiple-choice answer forms, indicating that these children may not perform to their full academic potential on such tests, according to June 14’s JAMA Ophthalmology.
- Retinal microglia, resident immune cells of the central nervous system, activate rapidly in response to a retinal detachment, indicating they may be involved in regulating neuroinflammation in the retina, reports June’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
- Cataract surgery is linked with a “modest” decrease in a patient’s subsequent risk of getting into a dire traffic accident as a driver, according to June 28’s online version of JAMA Ophthalmology.
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Research Notes
Optometric Management
August 1, 2018
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