Study: Believe it or not! Cataract Surgery Reduces Hip Fractures

Cataract Surgery Reduces Hip Fractures (Orthopedics This Week)
It only makes sense…if you can see better, then you see that thing you’re about trip over. Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Brown University have found that Medicare patients 65 years and older who underwent cataract surgery had a lower odds of hip fracture one year after the procedure when compared with patients with cataract who did not have cataract surgery. Their study appears in the August 1 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Victoria L. Tseng, M.D., of the Warren Alp...