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Association Between Cataract and Risks of Osteoporosis and Fracture: A Nationwide Cohort Study

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, October 2018
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Title
Association Between Cataract and Risks of Osteoporosis and Fracture: A Nationwide Cohort Study
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Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, October 2018
DOI 10.1111/jgs.15626
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Huei‐Kai Huang, Shu‐Man Lin, Ching‐Hui Loh, Jen‐Hung Wang, Chung‐Chao Liang

Abstract

To evaluate the association between cataract and cataract surgery and risks of osteoporosis and fracture. Nationwide population-based retrospective cohort study. Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database. Individuals with (n=57,972) and without (n=57,972) cataracts. Individuals with and without cataracts were matched 1:1 for age, sex, and index year. Those with cataracts were further divided into cataract surgery and nonsurgery groups. Incidences and hazard ratios (HR) for risks of developing osteoporosis and fracture were calculated using Cox proportional hazard regression models. During mean follow-up of 6.4 years, 17,450 participants with cataracts and 12,627 without developed osteoporosis or fractures. Having cataracts was significantly associated with risk of developing osteoporosis or fracture (adjusted HR (aHR) = 1.29, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.25-1.32, p < .001). In analyses for each event, cataract was significantly associated with greater likelihood of all outcomes (osteoporosis: aHR = 1.43, 95% CI = 1.37-1.50, p < .001; hip fracture: aHR = 1.16, 95% CI = 1.07-1.26, p < .001; vertebral fracture: (aHR = 1.25, 95% CI = 1.18-1.33, p < .001; other fractures: aHR = 1.24, 95% CI = 1.20-1.28, p < .001). Participants who underwent cataract surgery were at significantly lower risk of osteoporosis or fracture (aHR = 0.58, 95% CI = 0.56-0.59, p < .001), than those who did not. Undergoing cataract surgery was also associated with lower risks of all individual events (osteoporosis; hip, vertebral, other fracture). Cataract was independently associated with increased risks of osteoporosis and fracture. There might be an association between cataract surgery and lower risks of osteoporosis and fracture.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 20%
Student > Bachelor 2 10%
Student > Master 2 10%
Professor > Associate Professor 2 10%
Researcher 1 5%
Other 1 5%
Unknown 8 40%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 8 40%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 15%
Neuroscience 1 5%
Unknown 8 40%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 128. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 October 2021.
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#322,158
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Outputs from Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
#276
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#6,875
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Outputs of similar age from Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
#12
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