Sir, We read with great interest the study by Mathur and Pai[1] entitled, “Comparison of serum sodium and potassium levels in patients with senile cataract and age‐matched individuals without cataract,” in which the authors showed that higher serum sodium level is associated with increased risk of senile cataract. We believe that the authors should be congratulated for the great work as the res...

course of the illness varied markedly; two cases ended on the sixth day of disease and one still survives at the thirty-seventh day now. In the intermediate examples the outstanding and most tantalising feature is the tendency to periods of remission; in one case the fluid had become practically normal only to revert to its former turbidity later. rreatment in our hands has been manifestly unsu...

It has been observed protein carbonylation and glycation in the lens epithelial cell fractions of lenses in people with mature cataract. We used lenses of diabetic patients, weak and strong cigarette smokers and people who had senile cataract. The protein glycation is the highest in a diabetic senile cataract patients and the lowest in non-diabetic senile cataract patients. The protein carbonyl...

purpose: to investigate the proportion and time trend of second-eye senile cataract surgery (secs) in a high-turnover academic center in iran. methods: in this cross-sectional study, samples were selected among all records of senile cataract surgery based on the international statistical classification of diseases and related health problems, 10th revision (icd-10) during four consecutive years...

BACKGROUND To determine the etiology and morphological features of cataracts in a myopia-endemic area of Taiwan. METHODS This retrospective case-controlled study comprised 332 patients (440 eyes) who underwent cataract-extraction surgery, 163 patients (220 eyes) constituting the presenile cataract study group, and 169 patients (220 eyes) constituting the senile cataract control group. Each gr...

As its name implies, senile cataract is age-related. A survey of 9 studies indicates to what extent the epidemiology of senile cataract can be represented by Gompertz plots. These are shown to be suitable separately for men and women and to enable one to distinguish between inborn and environmental influences. Further support is obtained for the view that myopia and cataract may be linked, and ...

In lens cataract, the clouding change in the lens leads to a decline of transparency of a part of the lens. There are three types of senile cataract: cortical cataract, nuclear cataract, and posterior/anterior sub-capsular cataract. The cataract that develops in most old people is cortical cataract. The clouding change in senile cortical cataract begins from the edge of the lens and develops pr...

The palm prints of patients with different types of cataract (total, nuclear, zonular, cortical and complicated) were analysed for main line terminations and compared with those of a random population. The cases were also grouped into congenital, juvenile and senile types for broader comparison. The results showed significant variations for all the 4 main line terminations (D, C, B and A) in se...