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Predicting Important Patient-Reported Outcomes For Glaucoma Management: Cross-Sectional Study, Lavanya Uruthiramoorthy
Predicting Important Patient-Reported Outcomes For Glaucoma Management: Cross-Sectional Study, Lavanya Uruthiramoorthy
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The initiative to understand patient-reported outcomes (PROs) has increased to improve glaucoma management. We sought to identify important predictors of four PROs: social support and community integration, presence of depressive symptoms, vision-related quality of life (VRQoL) and preference-based Health-Related quality of life (HRQoL). A cross-sectional study was conducted among patients in London, Ontario (n=250). Regression models, and classification and regression trees were built. Leave-one-out cross-validation assessed the models’ predictive performance. Mobility aid use, best corrected visual acuity (BCVA), income and living arrangements were predictors identified for VRQoL, and social support and community integration. Mobility aid use was also predictive of …
Association Between Age-Related Macular Degeneration And Sleep-Disordered Breathing, Jeffrey A. Nau
Association Between Age-Related Macular Degeneration And Sleep-Disordered Breathing, Jeffrey A. Nau
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a chronic, irreversible disease that robs individuals of vision, quality of life, and independence. It is the leading cause of blindness in industrialized countries. Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) is a condition characterized by repeated episodes of apnea and/or hypopnea, insomnia, short sleep duration, and/or sleep disturbances (snoring, gasping, etc.). Because SDB has been shown to cause chronic hypoxia resulting in oxidative stress on the retina, it has been proposed that SDB may be associated with AMD. Based on the life course theory of chronic disease, this quantitative, cross-sectional study used data from the 2005-2008 National Health …