Clues to visual variant Alzheimer’s; myopia and diabetic retinopathy risk

Two studies are of particular note in today’s Scientific Program of the 2009 Joint Meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the Pan-American Association of Ophthalmology : a report by Swiss neuro-ophthalmic researchers about vision exam clues that should make ophthalmologists suspect an atypical variant of Alzheimer’s disease; and new …

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