Cataract and survival in an elderly nondiabetic population.
Follow-up ranging between 6 and 8 years of the survival of a cohort of 473 elderly nondiabetic subjects randomly selected from a small English town showed an age- and sex-adjusted association between nuclear cataract at the time of baseline examination and decreased survival (P = .002). Comparing those with and without nuclear cataract, the adjusted relative hazard for death was 1.52 (95% confidence interval, 1.15 to 1.99). This effect remained virtually unchanged when also adjusted for whether the subject reported ever having been a smoker.
Thompson
J R
JR
Department of Ophthalmology, University of Leicester, England.
Sparrow
J M
JM
Gibson
J M
JM
Rosenthal
A R
AR
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002386:Cataract / Q000401:mortality*; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000401:mortality; D004739:England / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007907:Lens Nucleus, Crystalline / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D011897:Random Allocation; D015996:Survival Rate