glasses Archives - Amazing Health Advances https://amazinghealthadvances.net/tag/glasses/ Your hub for fresh-picked health and wellness info Mon, 15 Nov 2021 07:02:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://amazinghealthadvances.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/AHA_Gradient_Bowl-150x150.jpg glasses Archives - Amazing Health Advances https://amazinghealthadvances.net/tag/glasses/ 32 32 Want to Ditch Your Glasses After Cataract Surgery? This New Artificial Lens May Help https://amazinghealthadvances.net/want-to-ditch-your-glasses-after-cataract-surgery-this-new-artificial-lens-may-help-7680/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=want-to-ditch-your-glasses-after-cataract-surgery-this-new-artificial-lens-may-help-7680 https://amazinghealthadvances.net/want-to-ditch-your-glasses-after-cataract-surgery-this-new-artificial-lens-may-help-7680/#respond Mon, 15 Nov 2021 08:00:29 +0000 https://amazinghealthadvances.net/?p=13335 American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) via Newswise – NEW ORLEANS, La. – Cataract surgery is one of the most successful medical procedures performed in the United States, with nearly 4 million Americans choosing to have their cataracts removed every year. While the procedure has a success rate of about 97 percent, it is not uncommon for people to still need glasses after surgery, especially reading glasses. A new study released at AAO 2021, the 125th annual meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, showed that a new kind of artificial lens allowed over 90 percent of patients to see well enough that they no longer needed glasses. A cataract is the clouding of the eye’s natural clear lens. During cataract surgery, an ophthalmologist surgically removes the cloudy lens and replaces it with an artificial lens called an intraocular lens (IOL). The most common IOL type is a monofocal IOL and it allows people to see well at distance, but it can’t fix presbyopia, that annoying part of aging that slowly robs people of their near vision. Researchers have been working for years to develop a presbyopia correcting IOL that can correct the full range of vision: up close, at arms-length, and far away. While these presbyopia correcting IOLs can correct near or intermediate vision, they don’t effectively correct the full range of vision. This new IOL attempts to change that by combining two presbyopia-correcting IOL technologies, multifocal and extended depth-of-focus, to achieve full vision correction. It’s called the Tecnis Synergy from Johnson & Johnson Vision. The U.S. FDA approved the Tecnis Synergy IOL in May 2021. In the study presented today, researchers in Bakersfield, Calif. and 14 other sites across the U.S. compared visual outcomes in patients who received either a monofocal IOL or the new presbyopia correcting IOL during cataract surgery. Of the 272 patients enrolled in the study, 88 percent of those who received the Tecnis Synergy presbyopia correcting IOL never used glasses compared with just 3 percent in the monofocal IOL group. “My career goal has always been to conquer presbyopia—before it conquers me,” said lead researcher Daniel H. Chang, MD. “This lens is a key addition to our ability to treat presbyopia. The Tecnis Synergy provides the best near vision of any lens I’ve ever used. For patients not wanting glasses, this is the lens I recommend.” To read the original article click here.

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]]> https://amazinghealthadvances.net/want-to-ditch-your-glasses-after-cataract-surgery-this-new-artificial-lens-may-help-7680/feed/ 0 Vision Impairment Is Associated With Mortality https://amazinghealthadvances.net/vision-impairment-is-associated-with-mortality-7193/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vision-impairment-is-associated-with-mortality-7193 https://amazinghealthadvances.net/vision-impairment-is-associated-with-mortality-7193/#respond Fri, 19 Mar 2021 07:00:08 +0000 http://amazinghealthadvances.net/?p=11102 Michigan Medicine – University of Michigan via EurekAlert – The global population is aging, and so are their eyes. In fact, the number of people with vision impairment and blindness is expected to more than double over the next 30 years. A meta-analysis in The Lancet Global Health, consisting of 48,000 people from 17 studies, found that those with more severe vision impairment had a higher risk of all-cause mortality compared to those that had normal vision or mild vision impairment. According to the data, the risk of mortality was 29% higher for participants with mild vision impairment, compared to normal vision. The risk increases to 89% among those with severe vision impairment. Importantly, four of five cases of vision impairment can be prevented or corrected. Globally, the leading causes of vision loss and blindness are both avoidable: cataract and the unmet need for glasses. The study’s lead author, Joshua Ehrlich, M.D., M.P.H., sought to better understand the association between visual disabilities and all-cause mortality. The work compliments some of Ehrlich’s recent research, also in The Lancet Global Health Commission on Global Eye Health, that highlighted the impact of late-life vision impairment on health and well-being, including its influence on dementia, depression, and loss of independence. “It’s important these issues are addressed early on because losing your vision affects more than just how you see the world; it affects your experience of the world and your life,” says Ehrlich. “This analysis provides an important opportunity to promote not only health and wellbeing, but also longevity by correcting, rehabilitating, and preventing avoidable vision loss across the globe.” To read the original article click here.

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