Vision impairment may increase risk for future depressive symptoms among women during midlife, according to study results published in Menopause: The Journal of The North American Menopause Society.
“Despite [the] demonstrable increase in the prevalence of both depression and common eye disorders that can compromise vision during midlife, knowledge about the impact of vision on depressive symptoms among midlife adults is limited,” Carrie A. Karvonen-Gutierrez, PhD, MPH, of the department of epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, and colleagues wrote. “Several