Cataract surgery in women was associated with a significantly lower risk for total and cause-specific mortality, according to a study.
A total of 74,044 women in the Women’s Health Initiative were diagnosed with cataract at age 65 or older; of these women, 41,735 underwent cataract surgery. The researchers looked at outcomes including all-cause mortality and mortality attributed to vascular, cancer, accidental, neurologic, pulmonary and infectious causes in the prospective study.
Covariate-adjusted Cox models found women who underwent cataract surgery had lower all-cause mortality and
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