Most of you reading this are aware of Vuity (AbbVie), the newly FDA-approved drug to reduce the need for reading glasses. Dr. Toomey and I discussed some of the preliminary information on the podcast before the drug was released. The data is very compelling. I met with one of their medical liaisons, and he gave […]
N–3 Fatty Acid Supplementation for the Treatment of Dry Eye Disease published in the May 2018 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine supposedly proved that using n-3 (aka omega-3) fatty acids are no better than a placebo in treating dry eye disease. Among patients with dry eye disease, those who were randomly assigned […]
I get most of my paper ideas from a free service call Practice Update. When you sign up, you enter in what you are interested in, and they send you a list of links everyday. They all have some commentary, but I enjoy reading them myself. Only about half are fully accessible. The other half […]
In yesterday’s post about the association between cataracts and dementia, one of the variables that they solved for was the E4 allele of the apolipoprotein E gene (APOE4). The E4 allele of the apolipoprotein E gene (APOE) has been firmly established as a genetic risk factor for many diseases including cardiovascular diseases and Alzheimer’s disease […]
I remember a number of years back at a lecture hearing about a study that reported a significant reduction in the risk of a fall if a patient had cataract surgery. This study reminds me of that. Association Between Cataract Extraction and Development of Dementia published in the December 2021 issue of JAMA Internal Medicine […]
A neat study from the August 2021 issue of Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science. High-Fat Diet Induces Inflammation of Meibomian Gland by Jinghua Bu et al studied mice that were fed a high-fat diet and how it affected the ocular surface. The giant grain of salt regarding this article is this. mice showed extreme hyperlipidemia […]
We missed a week last week because of the craziness of Thanksgiving travel. There is a new podcast out now, though, discussing the link between severe glaucoma and cognitive impairment. I wrote a little blurb about this article already. You can subscribe to our podcast here or anywhere you find podcasts.
We have all been told for years that smoking can increase risk for developing age-related macular degeneration. The study Association of Smoking, Alcohol Consumption, Blood Pressure, Body Mass Index, and Glycemic Risk Factors With Age-Related Macular Degeneration from the November 2021 issue of JAMA Ophthalmology, shows that there is a correlation between smoking and advanced […]
A paper published on August 17, 2021 in Diabetalogia, “Association of maternal diabetes during pregnancy with high refractive error in offspring: a nationwide population-based cohort study” analyzed over 2 million people born between 1977 and 2016. It found that these people had a 39% increased risk of having high refractive errors of all types — […]
I very much enjoyed reading this paper. Lower Cognitive Function in Patients With Functionally and Structurally Severe Glaucoma: The LIGHT Study in the October 2021 edition of Journal of Glaucoma. This quote says it all right here. “This cross-sectional study of 172 patients with glaucoma showed that functional and structural glaucoma damage was significantly associated with […]