Cataract

Cataract is a self-defence reaction to protect the retina from oxidative damage | February 2011

Cataract is an age related disease. The lens becomes progressivelyopaque and more yellow, causing an increase in lightabsorption in the 300–500 nm range, thus diminishing our perceptionof violet and blue light [1–3]. An estimated 20.5 million (17%)Americans older than 40 years have cataract in either eye and 6.1million (5%) have had cataracts extracted..

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Associations between age-related nuclear cataract and lutein and zeaxanthin in the diet and serum in the Carotenoids in the Age-Related Eye Disease Study, an Ancillary Study of the Women's Health Initiative. | March 2008

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate associations between nuclear cataract (determined from slitlamp photographs between May 2001 and January 2004) and lutein and zeaxanthin in the diet and serum in patients between 1994 and 1998 and macula between 2001 and 2004. DESIGN: A total of 1802 women aged 50 to 79 years in Iowa, Wisconsin, and Oregon with intakes

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