The Lens Newsletter: August 27, 2025

27/08/2025 8 min

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In This Week's Issue:A cross-sectional study looking at patients after globe removal from US service members showed higher rates of suicidal ideation, alcohol use disorder, anxiety/depression, among other behavioral health diagnoses.As compared to European populations, Hispanic populations had lower success rates and higher bleb leaks with trabeculectomy.A post hoc analysis found that younger adjusted age at congenital cataract surgery was associated with higher glaucoma risk but better long-term visual acuity, whilegestational age alone was not associated with outcomes.H. pylori-positive patients developed temporal retinal nerve fiber layer thinning at slightly higher rates and also developed signs of macular degeneration at a significantly younger age than H. pylori-negative patients