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 Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, and colleagues examined the association between cataract surgery and fracture incidence at one year. The study included a 5% random sample of Medicare Part B beneficiaries with cataract who received and did not receive cataract surgery from 2002 through 2009.
There were 1,113,640 Medicare beneficiaries 65 years and older with a diagnosis of cataract between 2002 and 2009 in the 5% random sample. Of patients with cataract, 36.9% underwent cataract surgery during the study period. During this period, the overall one-year fracture ...
