Diabetes as Risk Factor of Cataract: Differentiation by Retroillumination Photography and Image Analysis
- 1 January 1990
- journal article
- Published by S. Karger AG in Ophthalmic Research
- Vol. 22 (1) , 78-80
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000267071
Abstract
We performed an epidemiological study to identify risk factors of cataract based on 2,243 subjects who underwent a general health checkup. Each subject underwent a 75-gram oral glucose tolerance test and blood chemistry analysis. The prevalence rate of cataract was higher in diabetic subjects in their 50s than in nondiabetics in the same age range (pKeywords
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