title: The eye within the framework of human senescence: biological decline and morbidity.
abstract: An introduction to basic risk theory is applied to an analysis which is used to calculate risks for mortality, age-related maculopathy, and nuclear cataract. A number of ad hoc assumptions are introduced, and the predicted results compared with results culled from the literature. The results for nuclear cataract indicate that the loss of life expectancy associated with this condition may exceed 3 years. Finally, the theory is applied to an estimate of general blindness.
authors.affiliation: University College Hospital Eye Department, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Weale
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology*; D001766:Blindness / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality* / Q000503:physiopathology; D002386:Cataract / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D007907:Lens Nucleus, Crystalline / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D008268:Macular Degeneration / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality* / Q000503:physiopathology; D009017:Morbidity; D012307:Risk Factors