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Link Found Between Cognitive Impairment and Normal-Tension Glaucoma – MD Magazine
The investigators found lower absolute T-MoCA scores in the NTG arm of the study when compared to the high tension glaucoma cohort.
With the recent discovery of a link between normal-tension glaucoma (NTG) and dementia, researchers now believe cognitive impairment could be more strongly associated with NTG than high tension glaucoma (HTG).
A team, led by Sean Mullany, MD, Ophthalmology, Flinders University, used cognitive screening data from the Australasian Glaucoma Disease Registry to identify the link between cognitive impairment and high tension glaucoma.
In the case-control cross-sectional study, the investigators completed…
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