Analysis of more than 61,000 patients found higher odds of elevated loneliness scores among those reporting blindness and those with diabetic retinopathy, but not among patients with glaucoma or age-related macular degeneration.
An artificial intelligence–based optical coherence tomography pathway met noninferiority criteria for false-positive diabetic macular edema referrals and was associated with fewer referral decisions in a randomized clinical trial.
In a UK Biobank cohort, thinner ganglion cell-inner plexiform layer and macular measurements were associated with incident depression over more than a decade of follow-up, while no independent association emerged for anxiety disorders.
This week's research makes one thing clear: who someone is before they get sick — their relationships, their partner's health, the back of their eye — is doing a lot of work medicine is only beginning to account for.
FOXC1 duplications were the second most common monogenic finding among genetically solved juvenile open-angle glaucoma cases in one registry, supporting the use of copy-number variant analysis in early-onset glaucoma testing.
Narrative review linked lower vitamin D levels to greater myopia risk and higher omega-3 intake to lower risk, though outdoor exposure may explain the vitamin D association.