India, April 2 -- The importance of getting eyesight checked can hardly be understated. However, neurologists and content creators Drs Ayesha and Dean Sherzai took to Instagram on March 26 to explain how taking care of the eyes has been linked to taking care of the brain and lowering dementia risk.

"The Lancet Commission on Dementia cited a meta-analysis of 14 prospective cohort studies following more than six million adults, cognitively intact at baseline," shared the neurologists. "People with untreated vision impairment had a 47 percent higher risk of developing dementia." They did note that the data were observational and only showed association without proving causation.

"A vision problem is not a dementia diagnosis," highlighted t...