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4A) had 6% fewer fiber folds per 20 μm than the diabetics with nuclear cataract (Fig.

This study aims to compare the transparent lenses of diabetic patients to those of with nuclear cataract, without conclusions based on disease type or treatment.

Conversely, a number of studies have shown little association of nuclear cataracts with diabetes [ 27 28 29 ] .

By the age of 70, most people have begun to develop nuclear cataracts, but the condition can afflict people of any age.

Antioxidant intake and risk of incident age-related nuclear cataracts in the Beaver Dam Eye Study.

Research continues into other areas where specific statins also appear to have a favorable effect, including dementia, lung cancer, nuclear cataracts, hypertension, and prostate cancer.

Further investigations employing a broad population of samples with extensive medical histories will yield additional, more conclusive results about the relationship of diabetes and nuclear cataract.

The known adverse health effects also include other respiratory diseases and symptoms, nuclear cataract, hip fractures, reduced female fertility, and diminished health status.

The progression of galactosemic cataract is generally divided into three stages; initial vacuolar, late vacuolar, and nuclear cataract.

Lens fibers became liquefied after nine days of the diet, and nuclear cataract formation appeared after 15 days of the diet.

By 54 wks of age, alphaA/BKO lenses exhibited dense cortical and nuclear cataracts (Figure 1C).

A comparison of non-diabetic age-related nuclear cataractous lenses and nuclear cataracts from diabetic patients yielded insignificantly small differences in three of the four parameters tested (Table 2).

For example, among men 60 to 69 years old, 49 percent of the smokers had nuclear cataracts, compared with only 21 percent of the men who had quit smoking for more than 10 years.

Discussion Comparisons of transparent diabetic and diabetic lenses with nuclear cataract yielded statistically significant differences in each measured parameter, indicating a detectable and real difference in inner nuclear size between the groups.

In our comparisons, the average age for the age-related nuclear cataract group was 70 years [ 4 ] whereas that for the cataractous diabetic group in this study was only 55 years old.

Nuclear cataracts, to which cigarette smoking was found to contribute, form in the center of the lens, while the most common type, cortical cataracts, occur in the periphery of the lens and impair sight less often.

"If you think of the lens as a peach, nuclear cataracts involve the stone of the peach, cortical cataracts involve the flesh, and posterior subcapsular cataracts involve the skin," Dr. Taylor said.

The study found that among 838 Maryland fishermen 30 to 94 years old, those who smoked were twice as likely to develop nuclear cataracts before reaching the age of 70 as those who had quit smoking more than 10 years previously.

Factors Other Than Age "Nuclear cataracts have long been thought to be part of the aging process and something that you could do nothing about," said Dr. West, an assistant professor of ophthalmology at the Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute in Baltimore.

Our previous study demonstrated a 12% average decrease in elliptical angle and A-P axis measurements between aged transparent lenses and those of age-related nuclear cataracts [ 4 ] ; this is roughly the same amount of change reported here between transparent and nuclear cataractous diabetic lenses (11% decrease).