ReviewEye (London, England)2018
Physical activity, visual impairment, and eye disease.
Review in Eye (London, England), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07218991 (Wearable Echolocation Aids Using Parametric Sound), which is not on this map. Cited by 65 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Wearable Echolocation Aids Using Parametric Sound
Who cites it
65 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 133 citations in OpenAlex.
- Diet and ideal food pyramid to prevent or support the treatment of diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration, and cataracts.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Pooled it
- The Bidirectional Relationship between Vision and Cognition: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Ophthalmology · 2021Pooled it
- Environmental and behavioural interventions for reducing physical activity limitation and preventing falls in older people with visual impairment.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Neither uni- nor multi-modal exercise interventions improved single- and dual-task gait performance in physically active healthy elderly - a pilot study.BMC geriatrics · 2025Trial
- Physical Activity and Macular Choroidal Circulation in Older Adults With Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma: A Swept-Source Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography Study.Translational vision science & technology · 2026Article
- The association between sarcopenia and diabetic retinopathy: a mediation analysis of inflammatory biomarkers.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2026Article
- Associations Between Physical Activity and Glaucoma: Analysis of the National Institutes of Health All of Us Research Program.Journal of glaucoma · 2026Article
- Long-term exposure to fine particulate matter and its constituents is related to self-reported visual impairment among middle-aged and older adults: a longitudinal study in China.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Patterns and correlates of visual impairment and ocular hypertension among older adults in the general Chinese population: results from the CKB Biobank.The British journal of ophthalmology · 2025Observational
- Health among Retired Great Britain's Olympic Athletes: A cross-sectional Study of Disease and Multimorbidity.Sports medicine - open · 2025Article
- Effects of physical activity on visual outcomes among type 2 diabetes patients: protocol for a scoping review of randomized controlled trials.Systematic reviews · 2025Article
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- Sex-Specific Multimorbidity-Multibehaviour Patterns in Primary Care Populations.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Observational
- Association between health literacy and health-promoting behaviors in individuals with visual impairments.Journal of education and health promotion · 2025Article
- The impact of physical exercise with additional visual tasks on self-esteem in children: the mediating role of visual acuity.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Excessive body weight and its contributing factors in visually impaired patients in northwest Ethiopia, 2024.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Article
- A Narrative Review of the Association Between Cataracts and Dementia.Eye and brain · 2025Review
- Diabetes Eye Disease Sufferers and Non-Sufferers Are Differentiated by Sleep Hours, Physical Activity, Diet, and Demographic Variables: A CRT Analysis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Treadmill-walking impairs visual function in early glaucoma and elderly controls.Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie · 2024Article
- An Empowerment-Based Physical Activity Intervention for Older People with Advanced Age-Related Macular Degeneration: An Exploratory Qualitative Case Study Design.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
5 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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4 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Numerous studies have demonstrated physical activity is a strong factor in overall health and well-being, and a growing body of literature, reviewed herein, suggests that several eye conditions, including glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration, and diabetic retinopathy, are associated with lower activity levels. Likewise, physical activity levels are lower in persons with worse vision. Research in this area has utilized both self-reported physical activity measures as well as objective measures of activity (i.e., accelerometers), each of which have their own strengths and limitations. Putative mechanisms explaining the association of various eye conditions with physical activity are discussed. It is possible that activity restriction occurs as a downstream consequence of eye disease/visual impairment, that activity restriction causes eye disease/visual impairment, or that causality is bidirectional; evidence supporting each of these theories is put forth. An improved understanding of the relationship between physical activity and eye disease will highlight potential secondary health risks resulting from eye disease, and can help determine whether activity might serve as a readily available preventative measure to prevent specific eye conditions.
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