Visual impairment in aging and cognitive decline: experience in a Memory Clinic

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 9; no. 1; pp. 8698 - 10
• Main Authors: Marquié, Marta, Castilla-Martí, Miguel, Valero, Sergi, Martínez, Joan, Sánchez, Domingo, Hernández, Isabel, Rosende-Roca, Maitée, Vargas, Liliana, Mauleón, Ana, Rodríguez-Gómez, Octavio, Abdelnour, Carla, Gil, Silvia, Santos-Santos, Miguel A., Alegret, Montserrat, Espinosa, Ana, Ortega, Gemma, Pérez-Cordón, Alba, Sanabria, Ángela, Roberto, Natalia, Moreno-Grau, Sonia, de Rojas, Itziar, Simó, Rafael, Ciudin, Andreea, Hernández, Cristina, Orellana, Adelina, Monté-Rubio, Gemma, Benaque, Alba, Ruiz, Agustín, Tárraga, Lluís, Boada, Mercè
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 18.06.2019; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 692/617/375/132/1283; 692/699/3161; Acuity; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Aging; Alzheimer's disease; Cognitive ability; Cognitive Dysfunction - diagnosis; Cognitive Dysfunction - physiopathology; Cohort Studies; Dementia; Dementia - diagnosis; Dementia - physiopathology; Dementia disorders; Female; Frontotemporal dementia; Geriatrics; Humanities and Social Sciences; Humans; Intraocular Pressure - physiology; Lewy bodies; Logistic Models; Male; Memory; Memory - physiology; Middle Aged; multidisciplinary; Neurodegenerative diseases; Neurological complications; Neuropsychological Tests - statistics & numerical data; Older people; Outpatient Clinics, Hospital; Quality of Life; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Tomography, Optical Coherence - methods; Vascular dementia; Vision Disorders - diagnosis; Vision Disorders - physiopathology; Visual Acuity - physiology; Visual impairment; Visual perception

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