Alcohol Use and Risk of Posterior Subcapsular Opacities

Human Cataract Risk Factors: Significance of Abstention from, and High Consumption of, Ethanol (U-Curve) and Non-Significance of Smoking

“…The validity of our observations is support ed because the statistical analysis in the present study involved large numbers (990 matched pairs for ethanol and 858 for smok ers) and because of the previous finding of our pilot study wherein total abstention from, and high consumption of, ethanol were associated with cataract [3], These data are consistent with other reports that alcoholism [20,[22][23][24] and high alcohol consumption [16,17,27,28] are associated with cataract. The Beaver Dam Eye Study [29] showed no U-shapc relation with alcohol consumption.…”

Human Cataract Risk Factors: Significance of Abstention from, and High Consumption of, Ethanol (U-Curve) and Non-Significance of Smoking

“…The validity of our observations is support ed because the statistical analysis in the present study involved large numbers (990 matched pairs for ethanol and 858 for smok ers) and because of the previous finding of our pilot study wherein total abstention from, and high consumption of, ethanol were associated with cataract [3], These data are consistent with other reports that alcoholism [20,[22][23][24] and high alcohol consumption [16,17,27,28] are associated with cataract. The Beaver Dam Eye Study [29] showed no U-shapc relation with alcohol consumption.…”

Increased incidence of cataract extractions in women above 70 years of age

“…A disproportional representation of the probably more visually disabling posterior subcapsular cataract in one sex could increase surgical demand incidence for that sex (Adamssons et al 1991). However, there are no indications that risk factors for posterior subcapsular cataract such as steroid use, diabetes, ultraviolet light exposure and history of heavy drinking (Leske & Sperduto 1983;Munoz et al 1993;Bochow et al 1989) were overrepresented among the female cases in our study. We are therefore currently studying the incidence of various cataract types in our population in order to look for any sex related differences.…”

Risk factors for cataract subtypes waterclefts and retrodots: two case–control studies

“…56 Earlier studies have found a protective effect for certain patterns of (light) alcohol consumption for cataract although mostly these studies have reported heavy alcohol consumption to be a risk, particularly for nuclear cataract. 16,[29][30][31][32][33] As noted above, our study population consisted mostly of relatively light drinkers, which could explain the absence of any observed harmful effects of 'heavy' alcohol use in our participants.…”

“…Earlier studies have found a protective effect for certain patterns of (light) alcohol consumption for cataract although mostly these studies have reported heavy alcohol consumption to be a risk, particularly for nuclear cataract. 16,[29][30][31][32][33] In a number of these previous studies, heavy alcohol consumption has been defined as over four alcoholic drinks per day. In the case-control populations, we studied there were under 10% of participants who reported 'heavy' drinking, which we defined as greater than 80 alcohol units per month (approximately 42 1 2 U=day).…”

Human Cataract Risk Factors: Significance of Abstention from, and High Consumption of, Ethanol (U-Curve) and Non-Significance of Smoking

“…The validity of our observations is support ed because the statistical analysis in the present study involved large numbers (990 matched pairs for ethanol and 858 for smok ers) and because of the previous finding of our pilot study wherein total abstention from, and high consumption of, ethanol were associated with cataract [3], These data are consistent with other reports that alcoholism [20,[22][23][24] and high alcohol consumption [16,17,27,28] are associated with cataract. The Beaver Dam Eye Study [29] showed no U-shapc relation with alcohol consumption.…”

Increased incidence of cataract extractions in women above 70 years of age

“…A disproportional representation of the probably more visually disabling posterior subcapsular cataract in one sex could increase surgical demand incidence for that sex (Adamssons et al 1991). However, there are no indications that risk factors for posterior subcapsular cataract such as steroid use, diabetes, ultraviolet light exposure and history of heavy drinking (Leske & Sperduto 1983;Munoz et al 1993;Bochow et al 1989) were overrepresented among the female cases in our study. We are therefore currently studying the incidence of various cataract types in our population in order to look for any sex related differences.…”

Risk factors for cataract subtypes waterclefts and retrodots: two case–control studies

“…56 Earlier studies have found a protective effect for certain patterns of (light) alcohol consumption for cataract although mostly these studies have reported heavy alcohol consumption to be a risk, particularly for nuclear cataract. 16,[29][30][31][32][33] As noted above, our study population consisted mostly of relatively light drinkers, which could explain the absence of any observed harmful effects of 'heavy' alcohol use in our participants.…”

“…Earlier studies have found a protective effect for certain patterns of (light) alcohol consumption for cataract although mostly these studies have reported heavy alcohol consumption to be a risk, particularly for nuclear cataract. 16,[29][30][31][32][33] In a number of these previous studies, heavy alcohol consumption has been defined as over four alcoholic drinks per day. In the case-control populations, we studied there were under 10% of participants who reported 'heavy' drinking, which we defined as greater than 80 alcohol units per month (approximately 42 1 2 U=day).…”

Human Cataract Risk Factors: Significance of Abstention from, and High Consumption of, Ethanol (U-Curve) and Non-Significance of Smoking

“…The validity of our observations is support ed because the statistical analysis in the present study involved large numbers (990 matched pairs for ethanol and 858 for smok ers) and because of the previous finding of our pilot study wherein total abstention from, and high consumption of, ethanol were associated with cataract [3], These data are consistent with other reports that alcoholism [20,[22][23][24] and high alcohol consumption [16,17,27,28] are associated with cataract. The Beaver Dam Eye Study [29] showed no U-shapc relation with alcohol consumption.…”

Increased incidence of cataract extractions in women above 70 years of age

“…A disproportional representation of the probably more visually disabling posterior subcapsular cataract in one sex could increase surgical demand incidence for that sex (Adamssons et al 1991). However, there are no indications that risk factors for posterior subcapsular cataract such as steroid use, diabetes, ultraviolet light exposure and history of heavy drinking (Leske & Sperduto 1983;Munoz et al 1993;Bochow et al 1989) were overrepresented among the female cases in our study. We are therefore currently studying the incidence of various cataract types in our population in order to look for any sex related differences.…”

Risk factors for cataract subtypes waterclefts and retrodots: two case–control studies

“…56 Earlier studies have found a protective effect for certain patterns of (light) alcohol consumption for cataract although mostly these studies have reported heavy alcohol consumption to be a risk, particularly for nuclear cataract. 16,[29][30][31][32][33] As noted above, our study population consisted mostly of relatively light drinkers, which could explain the absence of any observed harmful effects of 'heavy' alcohol use in our participants.…”

“…Earlier studies have found a protective effect for certain patterns of (light) alcohol consumption for cataract although mostly these studies have reported heavy alcohol consumption to be a risk, particularly for nuclear cataract. 16,[29][30][31][32][33] In a number of these previous studies, heavy alcohol consumption has been defined as over four alcoholic drinks per day. In the case-control populations, we studied there were under 10% of participants who reported 'heavy' drinking, which we defined as greater than 80 alcohol units per month (approximately 42 1 2 U=day).…”