Social Determinants of Health, Vision, and Treatment in Exudative Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Timothy M Janetos, Adovich S Rivera, Yang Li, Chris A Andrews, Paul J Bryar, Manjot K Gill, Jeremy A Lavine, Joshua D Stein, Dustin D French, the SOURCE Consortium · 2026
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Timothy Janetos and co-authors, with the SOURCE Consortium, examine how social conditions shape treatment patterns in wet age-related macular degeneration. Their study appeared in 2026. Uneven treatment of this eye disease is common and costs vision, but the reasons are murky. The team pulled records for 15,664 newly diagnosed patients who got at least one eye injection at 17 academic centers between 2014 and 2024. Clustering grouped the first year's visit and injection sequences into distinct patterns.
The team then tested which social factors predicted each pattern: sex, age, race and ethnicity, language, urban or rural home, insurance, neighborhood distress, other illnesses, and starting vision. The authors say mapping who drifts from steady treatment is the first step to closing the gaps that cost sight.
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| CREATOR | Timothy M Janetos, Adovich S Rivera, Yang Li, Chris A Andrews, Paul J Bryar, Manjot K Gill, Jeremy A Lavine, Joshua D Stein, Dustin D French, the SOURCE Consortium |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |