Associations of ophthalmic and systemic conditions with incident dementia in the UK Biobank

CONCLUSIONS: AMD, cataract and DRED but not glaucoma are associated with an increased risk of dementia. Individuals with both ophthalmic and systemic conditions are at higher risk of dementia compared with those with an ophthalmic or systemic condition only.PMID:34518160 | DOI:10.1136/bjophthalmol-2021-319508

Source: The British Journal of Ophthalmology - September 14, 2021 Category: Opthalmology Authors: Xianwen Shang Zhuoting Zhu Yu Huang Xueli Zhang Wei Wang Danli Shi Yu Jiang Xiaohong Yang Mingguang He Source Type: research