Cataract surgery reduces the risk of death in older women

Older women who have cataract surgery can reduce their risk of all-cause mortality by 60%. All shows in a recent study.

The findings suggest that cataract surgery is associated with a 60% reduction in the risk of all-cause mortality and a 37% to 69% reduction in the risk of death from lung diseases, infectious diseases, nerve and blood vessels and cancer.

This study carried out the survey, analyzing a total of 74,044 women with cataracts, of which 41,735 underwent cataract surgery and an average age of 71.

Researcher Anne L Coleman from University of California, Los Angeles and colleagues from WHI conducted the study from January 1993 to December 2015.

Previous studies have suggested an association between cataract surgery and risk reduction from all possible causes of death through a mechanism to improve health status about functional independence. motor.

"Further research on the interaction of cataract surgery with diseases and its ability to reduce mortality will be extremely important and useful information for the care of patients with Ophthalmological diseases " , the authors concluded.

This study appears in the Journal of Ophthalmic JAMA.