{"id":13229,"date":"2013-10-08T15:55:50","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T15:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alfredoferrer.com\/?p=13229"},"modified":"2024-12-03T20:44:54","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T20:44:54","slug":"study-cataract-surgery-is-associated-with-improved-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfredoferrer.com\/en\/study-cataract-surgery-is-associated-with-improved-survival\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Cataract Surgery is associated with Improved Survival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A University of Sydney&#8217;s team assessed in a recent study whether correction of visual impairment by cataract surgery was associated with improved long-term survival in an older Australian population.<\/p>\n<p>Conclusions were possitive. Surgical correction of visual impairment due to cataract was associated with significantly better long-term survival of older persons after accounting for known cataract and mortality risk factors, and indicators of general health.<\/p>\n<p>More information <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaojournal.org\/article\/S0161-6420(13)00143-7\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaojournal.org\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ophthalmology AAO Journal<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A University of Sydney&#8217;s team assessed in a recent study whether correction of visual impairment by cataract surgery was associated with improved long-term survival in an older Australian population. Conclusions&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfredoferrer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfredoferrer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfredoferrer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfredoferrer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfredoferrer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alfredoferrer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18348,"href":"https:\/\/alfredoferrer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13229\/revisions\/18348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfredoferrer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfredoferrer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfredoferrer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}