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Revista Archivo Médico de Camagüey

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BARROSO PENA, Yamara; AVILA BALMASEDA, Yasmany; RODRIGUEZ BENCOMO, Dania de Jesús  and  RODRIGUEZ ROMERO, Armando. Clinical-epidemic characteristic of cataract. AMC [online]. 2010, vol.14, n.3. ISSN 1025-0255.

Background: cataract is the main cause of blindness in the world and it constitutes a challenge for any health system. With the increase in life expectancy is of vital importance to get ready before such a situation, old men are part of population most affected by this disease. The main reason should not be the opacification of lens, but its interference with lifestyle and its repercussion in daily performance. Objective: to characterize clinical and epidemically the cataract. Method: a retrospective observational, descriptive, longitudinal study in the Polyclinic Julio A. Mella of Camagüey from May 2006 to May 2007 was conducted. The study universe was constituted by all those patients with cataract diagnostic that were attended in the ophthalmology consultation (220 patients); the sample coincided with the universe. Different sociodemographic variables were studied like: age, sex, risk factors, types of acquired cataract, associated disease and other, a form was made for data  collecting. For data processing a computer compatible IBM was used with the statistical package SPSS version 11.5 for Windows, being expressed results in charts and graphics. Results: a prevalence of cataract was demonstrated in older than 61 years as well as the female sex, the senile age was the prevailing risk factor, the senile cataract was the most frequent. Simple chronic glaucoma and arterial hypertension were the diseases that appeared with more frequency associated to cataract. Conclusions: cataract is one of the diseases that most affect old population and when it is associated to other diseases increase more its acting before society.

Keywords : CATARACT [etiology]; CATARACT [epidemiology]; LIFE STYLE; AGED; BLINDNESS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES.

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