Data from 97 cataract patients and 105 normal controls with ages less than 67 years were collected with respect to sex, age, disease status, drug intake, and blood chemistries. The statistical method of fitting log-linear models was used to determine the association between the case-control indicator variable and the other variables. The following variables were shown to be important and to associate independently with the risk of developing cataracts: age, allergy, diabetes, hypotension, hypertension, use of analgesics and coronary disease.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.