Dementia Risk After Glaucoma Surgery and Medical Therapy: A Multicentre Real‐World Cohort Study
Lee‐Yuan Lin, Jie‐Syuan Wu, Wei‐Jung Jeng, Chen‐Hsin Tsai, Shu‐Yu Liu, Tsai‐Wei Huang, Fara Silvia Yuliani, Shyh‐Hsiang Lin · 2026
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Description
Lee-Yuan Lin and co-authors published a research paper in 2026 on whether glaucoma surgery or eye drops alone go with a lower risk of later dementia. Glaucoma slowly kills the optic nerve, and sight loss was lately named a changeable dementia risk. It was unclear whether the way glaucoma is treated shifts that risk.
The team drew on a large health record network and matched over fifty thousand surgery patients to an equal set treated with medicine. Surgery went with a lower risk of dementia overall and a notably lower risk of the vessel-based kind. It also went with more sight loss, likely because surgical cases start worse. The pattern invites more study, not quick changes in care.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Lee‐Yuan Lin, Jie‐Syuan Wu, Wei‐Jung Jeng, Chen‐Hsin Tsai, Shu‐Yu Liu, Tsai‐Wei Huang, Fara Silvia Yuliani, Shyh‐Hsiang Lin |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |