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Scientists have long known that older adults with impaired vision face twice the risk of cognitive decline, the fifth-leading cause of disability among seniors. But the specific types of visual and mental keenness involved remain unclear.
A new study in the journal JAMA Network Open brings them into sharper focus.
The longitudinal study of 1,200 adults without dementia ages 60 to 94 looked at three types of vision loss and a full range of cognitive tests. Senior author Bonnielin Swenor of the Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute in Baltimore says that the work improves on previous studies, which often looked at only one measure of vision or lumped together different types of cognition.