The influence of age on characteristics of cataract patients

The influence of age on 12 pre‐, 1 intra‐, and 2 postoperative patients' characteristics was investigated in 1261 consecutively performed extracapsular cataract extractions. The following characteristics were shown to be significantly associated with increasing age; cardiovascular disease (p < 0.0005), female gender (p < 0.0005), nuclear sclerosis (p < 0.0005), maculopathy (p < 0.0005), corneal guttatae (p = 0.008) and reducing...