Crude and standardized prevalences of cataract and related factors in the elderly people in Northern Iran.
Ali Asghar TorabiMahdi AfshariRavanbakhsh EsmaeiliMahmood MoosazadehPublished in: Therapeutic advances in ophthalmology (2019)
Our study showed that the prevalence of cataract in the study population was relatively high. We also found that aging, living alone, diabetes mellitus, rheumatoid arthritis, hypertension, infectious diseases, ophthalmic surgery, sedative drugs and familial history of cataract were the risk factors of cataract and vitamin supplementations were its protective factors.