{"id":183504,"date":"2024-02-24T03:22:24","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T09:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/vision-impairment-in-older-adults-tied-to-symptoms-of-depression-anxiety-and-social-isolation-jama"},"modified":"2024-02-24T03:22:24","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T09:22:24","slug":"vision-impairment-in-older-adults-tied-to-symptoms-of-depression-anxiety-and-social-isolation-jama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/vision-impairment-in-older-adults-tied-to-symptoms-of-depression-anxiety-and-social-isolation-jama","title":{"rendered":"Vision impairment in older adults tied to symptoms of depression, anxiety and social isolation: JAMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/vision-impairment-in-older-adults-tied-to-symptoms-of-depression-anxiety-and-social-isolation-jama.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>USA: A cross-sectional study comprising 2,822 US adults revealed that worse examination-based and self-reported vision impairment is associated with anxiety and depressive symptoms, and worse examination-based vision impairment is linked with severe social isolation.<\/p>\n<p>These findings, published in <em>JAMA Ophthalmology, <\/em>provide evidence to support prioritizing research aimed at enhancing the health and inclusion of people with vision impairment.<\/p>\n<p>Vision impairment and psychosocial function, including symptoms of anxiety, depression and social isolation, are a major cause of morbidity in the US. However, there is a lack of nationally representative studies evaluating associations between subjective and objective vision impairment with psychosocial function following the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA: A cross-sectional study comprising 2,822 US adults revealed that worse examination-based and self-reported vision impairment is associated with anxiety and depressive symptoms, and worse examination-based vision impairment is linked with severe social isolation. These findings, published in JAMA Ophthalmology, provide evidence to support prioritizing research aimed at enhancing the health and inclusion of people [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}