Impact of the Severities of Glaucoma on the Incidence of Subsequent Dementia: A Population-Based Cohort Study

• Published in: International journal of environmental research and public health Vol. 17; no. 7; p. 2426
• Main Authors: Kuo, Fu-Hsuan, Chung, Jui-Fu, Hsu, Min-Yen, Lee, Chia-Yi, Huang, Jing-Yang, Hsieh, Ming-Ju, Yang, Shun-Fa
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 02.04.2020; MDPI
• Subjects: Age; Codes; Cohort analysis; Dementia; Disease; Glaucoma; Health insurance; Industrialized nations; Macular degeneration; Marital status; Morbidity; Parkinson's disease; Patients; Population; Population-based studies; Risk factors; Socioeconomic factors; Studies; Surgery; Taiwan; severity; Parkinson disease; epidemiology; dementia; Alzheimer disease; glaucoma
• ISSN: 1660-4601; 1661-7827; 1660-4601
• DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17072426

The aim of the present study was to survey the relationship between the severity of glaucoma and subsequent dementia using the National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD) in Taiwan. Subjects with glaucoma were selected into the study group after an exclusion process, and each subject in the...