Healthy Diets and the Subsequent Prevalence of Nuclear Cataract in Women

Mares, Julie A.; Voland, R.; Adler, Rachel; Tinker, Lesley F.; Millen, Amy E.; Moeller, Suzen M.; Blodi, Bárbara A.; Gehrs, Karen M.; Wallace, Robert B.; Chappell, Richard J.; Neuhouser, Marian L.; Sarto, Gloria E.

doi:10.1001/archophthalmol.2010.84

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“…Lifestyle factors, including cigarette smoke, diet, UV exposure, and stress, may also contribute. 37–39 Our finding regarding persons of lower socioeconomic status is particularly noteworthy given that this population has been documented generally to have lower utilization rates and poorer access to health care services. 40 …”

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Geographic Variation in the Rate and Timing of Cataract Surgery Among US Communities

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Geographic Variation in the Rate and Timing of Cataract Surgery Among US Communities

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“…However, our results were adjusted for several nondietary factors with effects in accordance with results from other studies, including smoking (5), ethnicity (3,19,22), and HRT use (39), and our analysis was restricted to participants with no self-reported diabetes at recruitment. It is possible that the diet group is simply a better marker of a healthy diet than the intake of any given nutrient; previous studies have shown measures of a healthy diet, such as the US Dietary Guidelines Healthy Eating Index, to be associated with a reduced risk of nuclear cataract or nuclear opacity in women (7,40). Confounding by other unmeasured factors was also possible, although their effects would have to have been considerable to explain the large difference in risk between diet groups seen in our data.…”

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“…Many studies have investigated possible associations between cataract and diet, and reviewers have suggested that eating foods rich in a variety of vitamins and minerals (7), especially antioxidants such as vitamins C and E (8,9) and the carotenoid xanthophylls lutein and zeaxanthin (10)(11)(12)(13), may protect against cataract.…”

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Diet, vegetarianism, and cataract risk

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Allen

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2011

The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

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Background: Age-related cataract is a major cause of morbidity. Previous studies of diet and cataract risk have focused on specific nutrients or healthy eating indexes but not on identifiable dietary groups such as vegetarians. Objective: We investigated the association between diet and cataract risk in a population that has a wide range of diets and includes a high proportion of vegetarians. Design: We used Cox proportional hazards regression to study cataract risk in relation to baseline dietary and lifestyle characteristics of 27,670 self-reported nondiabetic participants aged 40 y at recruitment in the Oxford (United Kingdom) arm of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC-Oxford) by using data from the Hospital Episode Statistics in England and Scottish Morbidity Records.Results: There was a strong relation between cataract risk and diet group, with a progressive decrease in risk of cataract in high meat eaters to low meat eaters, fish eaters (participants who ate fish but not meat), vegetarians, and vegans. After multivariable adjustment, incidence rate ratios (95% CIs) for moderate meat eaters (50-99 g meat/d), low meat eaters (,50 g meat/d), fish eaters, vegetarians, and vegans compared with high-meat eaters (100 g meat/d) were 0. 96 (0.84, 1.11), 0.85 (0.72, 0.99), 0.79 (0.65, 0.97), 0.70 (0.58, 0.84), and 0.60 (0.38, 0.96), respectively (P , 0.001 for heterogeneity). Associations between cataract risk and intakes of selected nutrients and foods generally reflected the strong association with diet group. Conclusion: Vegetarians were at lower risk of cataract than were meat eaters in this cohort of health-conscious British residents.Am J Clin Nutr 2011;93:1128-35.

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“…Studies on the prevalence of and risk factors for cataracts have been conducted mainly in white European-derived populations in the United States, Australia, and Europe [4]–[11]. Less is known about populations of African, Indian, or East Asian descent [3], [12]–[15].…”

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Prevalence of and Risk Factors for Age-Related and Anterior Polar Cataracts in a Korean Population

Park

Han

et al. 2014

PLoS ONE

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ObjectiveTo investigate the potential risk factors associated with nuclear, cortical, posterior subcapsular, and anterior polar cataracts (APC) in the Korean population.Research Design and MethodsThis was a population-based, cross-sectional study of 7992 adults (over 40 years of age) from the data of the fourth annual Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, performed from 2007 to 2009. The presence of lens opacity was examined by slit-lamp biomicroscopy and evaluated according to LOCS II standard photographs. The subtype of cataract present, including nuclear, cortical, posterior subcapsular, and anterior polar cataracts, was noted. Multivariable adjusted logistic regression analysis was conducted to examine the odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence interval (CI) for association of each specific type of cataract with age, sex, health examination, and medical history.ResultsThe prevalence of nuclear, cortical, and posterior subcapsular cataract increased gradually with increasing age. However, the prevalence of APC peaked in the 50- to 59-year-old subjects. All types of cataract except for APCs were more prevalent in women. Oral steroid use was associated with a lower risk of APC.ConclusionsThese findings showed the unique characteristics of APC in the Korean population.

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Healthy Diets and the Subsequent Prevalence of Nuclear Cataract in Women

Cited by 70 publications

References 54 publications

Geographic Variation in the Rate and Timing of Cataract Surgery Among US Communities

Geographic Variation in the Rate and Timing of Cataract Surgery Among US Communities

Diet, vegetarianism, and cataract risk

Prevalence of and Risk Factors for Age-Related and Anterior Polar Cataracts in a Korean Population

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