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Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Health: with the new glasses for the elderly increases the risk falls – Web Weather
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If the blurred vision contributes the risk of falls in the elderly, change glasses and use new ones, with a change in the prescription, it could also increase this kind of danger, rather than decrease it. To support it, a new study published in ‘Optometry and Vision Science’, the official journal of the American Academy of Optometry, by David B. Elliot and his group at the University of Bradford, UK. Falls are the leading cause of accidental death and non-fatal injury in older adults in the United States. At least one-third of healthy adults age ‘of 65 years fall at least once a year. For those of eta ‘more than 90 years, then, the risk increases to approximately 60 percent. The reduced vision and ‘an important risk factor, which suggests that interventions to correct vision, in particular spectacles and cataract surgery, reduce the risk of experiencing falls. However, the glasses with new shades can make objects appear more ‘neighbors or more’ away than they really are, thus influencing ‘the reflections that connect the vestibular system of balance with eye movements, and thus inducing’ falls.
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