Evidence map›Paper›PMID 40537571›Full record

ReviewEye (London, England)2025

Comparative cataract-lens opacification across species.

David Williams

Abstract readReviewComparative Study
In one paragraph

Review in Eye (London, England), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Global challenges for lens and cataract research.Frontiers in ophthalmology · 2026
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

David WilliamsQueen's Veterinary School Hospital, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Madingley Rd, Cambridge, CB3 0ES, UK. dlw33@cam.ac.uk.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Around 12 million people globally are estimated to be blind with age-related cataract and numerous studies have sought to evaluate the causes of this lens opacification, many of these complicated by the difficulty of determining the impacts of varying aetiological factors from daylight through diet, diabetes and many more. While various experimental investigations on laboratory animals have sought to unpick these influences on lens transparency to date none has sought to evaluate age-related cataract across different animal species kept as companion animals. Here we look at a number of studies on companion dogs, cats and horses to determine the effects of daylight, diet, diabetes, dehydration, drugs, genetics (DNA to continue the D alliteration) and trauma (Damage again as a final D).

Indexed as

CataractDog DiseasesAgingAnimalsCatsDogsHorsesHumansLens, Crystalline

Identifiers

PMID40537571
PMCPMC12325798

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