or those without dementia are more likely to get cataract surgery? Do dementia patients read?
People with cataracts don’t read as much? Therefore people who read more have less incidences of developing Alzie?
I’ll drink to that
Sometimes these studies make me wonder. Like right handed people have more/less of something than left handed? The %’s can differ depending on the topic but does it even matter in significance or to draw conclusions from.
Good to hear...had both eyes done last year! Life was getting foggier and blurred now it’s full color HD!
I’ve had cataract surgery on one eye, does that mean I only have a 15% chance?
COULD it be as simple as THOSE with advanced cataracts simply GIVE UP at some point?
I went through a period of low vision on account of fast-onset cats, and it was a struggle to keep up, to find alternate modes of display on a PC to turn the background to black and lettering to white, as well as a freebie screen reader (text to speech for a browser) ...
Probably another junk study in a long line of junk studies which will never be replicated.
Well there goes my blue light blocking glasses!
When you are looking for something you often find it even if it is not there.
“Innovative research like Dr. Lee’s is helping to uncover how age-related changes in our senses contribute to dementia,”.
He was looking for sensory related items. What he found maybe related to something else. This articles does not state if they tested for influence of the occurrence of cataract and dementia. A gene or something for cataracts may help prevent dementia.
“Cataract Surgery Linked With 30% Lower Risk of Dementia
so, does that mean if you get BOTH eyes done than the risk is lowered by 60%?
Every year corn growns 8' tall, a civil war occurs somwhere in the world. /s/
I am still two hours from procedure to eye patch.
Do I feel 15% less demented yet per single eye effect?
Maybe. The yellow content has dropped substantially.
Correlation is not causation.
This is a nice factoid, but it is essentially meaningless until some causative link between getting cataract surgery and a lower risk of Alzheimer’s is proven. What mechanism is involved? - answering that question is the key here.
I had cataract surgery last year but now I’m suffering with rather large floaters which sometimes seem worse than the cataracts were. I might need surgery for the floaters. If anyone has experience in this I’d appreciate some input.
....without even an attempt to isolate cause and effect. How many dementia patients are going to go in for cataract surgery? Duh.
I’ll bet the incidence of cataracts, as opposed to cataract surgery, is WAY higher among dementia patients.
I think that what may be at work is not the cataract surgey, but the fact that people who develop cataracts are more active outdoors. So it is the activities leading to the development of the cataract that needs surgery that is the main factor.
Apparently, before my Dad turned 76, his cataracts basically blinded him. At that time mid 1970’ cataracts were a heavy duty surgery and patients had to be immobile for days post surgery. He was a regular patient at his local VA hospital, and he said no way.
He and my Mother did’t tell us about this. They bought a big screen tv and put his Lazy Boy close to the set. He rediscovered the radio. My Mother was a retired reading teacher and read to him. He love westerns and the Old Man and the Sea. She read the local paper’s comics and shared the crossword puzzle with. I lived 1800 miles away and didn’t know what was happening as no one told me. Later our mother said that sometimes she read the same chapter or whatever several times. She didn’t realize what was happening to him mentally. He died in that chair listening to my Mother read to him.
Later a decade plus, my mother decided to go into a senior citizen’s home. I went back and spent a week with her sorting out what to give away, what to throw away and what to keep. I noticed that she didn’t want to drive. She had a new little Olds that she loved and she had me drive.
When, she sat in front of the big TV and in Dad’s chair, it dawned on me that she probably had cataracts. At first she denied it and then admitted it. She didn’t want a long postop, and I told her that the new procedures didn’t require that.
Shortly after we got her moved into supposedly and temporarily a nice condo. She consented to surgery for one eye. It was successful, and she drove afterwards. Then, she had the second surgery and was basically 20/20 for the rest of her life.
She did move into that retirement home after a few years and drove her little car safely for about a decade. About once every two weeks, she and a car load of friends drove/rode to a great cafeteria. They bought home enough left overs to have shared lunches/brunches for a few days.
I turned 58 and developed cataracts quickly, I thought. I had the adapting lens inserted into my dominant eye and my wife drove me home. Later I was out in our front yard and noticed that the neighbor across the street had what looked like new street number on a new mail box.
My wife informed me that the box and number were over 6 months old. My vision had really deteriorated. The next day I drove to the Ophthalmologist’s office for the followup care. I couldn’t believe how clear everything was. A few weeks later, I had the second operation. My vision was the best I ever had and was 20/10.
I would have been depressed or worse, if I hadn’t had my cataracts removed and replaced with the adaptable ones.