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Incidence of Cataract Extraction in Pima IndiansDiabetes as a Risk Factor
Ivan R. Schwab, MD;
Chandler R. Dawson, MD;
Isao Hoshiwara, MD;
Carl F. Szuter, MD;
William C. Knowler, MD, DrPH
Arch Ophthalmol. 1985;103(2):208-212.
Abstract
• The incidence of visually disabling cataract was estimated by the rate of first cataract extraction in a population of Pima Indians in Arizona. The annual age-specific rates of cataract surgery (first and second eyes) were 3.7 to 5.9 times as high as the estimated US rates. Diabetes was a strong risk factor for first cataract surgery in all age and sex groups except in men aged 75 to 84 years. Overall, with age and sex controlled, the rate of first cataract surgery was 2.2 times as high (95% confidence interval, 1.3 to 3.9) in diabetic as in nondiabetic subjects. Cataract surgery was related to the duration and type of treatment of diabetes. Insulin-treated diabetics had about five times the rate of those with normal glucose tolerance. The rate of cataract surgery was lowest in subjects with normal glucose tolerance, somewhat higher in those with impaired glucose tolerance, and even higher with increasing duration of diabetes.
Author Affiliations
From the World Health Organization Collaborating Center for the Prevention of Blindness and Trachoma, Francis I. Proctor Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology, University of California at San Francisco (Drs Schwab and Dawson); the Phoenix Indian Medical Center, Indian Health Service (Drs Hoshiwara and Szuter); and the Southwestern Field Studies Section, National Institute of Arthritis, Diabetes, and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Phoenix (Dr Knowler). Dr Schwab is now at the West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown.
Footnotes
Accepted for publication Sept 20, 1984.
Reprint requests to Francis I. Proctor Foundation, Room S-315, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94140 (Dr Dawson).
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