Table 4.
Association of Age and Gender with Cataract Type, Unoperated Cataract, and All Cataract
| Type of Cataract | Age Groups (y) |
Gender |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 60–64 | 65–69 OR (95% CI) | ≥70 OR (95% CI) | P Trend | Men | Women OR (95% CI) | P OR (95% CI) | |
| Any nuclear‡ | 1 | 2.34 (2.01–2.73) | 7.34 (5.85–9.21) | <0.0001 | 1 | 1.82 (1.59–2.08) | <0.0001 |
| Any cortical§ | 1 | 2.65 (2.10–3.35) | 7.06 (5.18–9.63) | <0.0001 | 1 | 2.07 (1.67–2.56) | <0.0001 |
| Any PSC∥ | 1 | 2.41 (1.98–2.92) | 7.48 (5.72–9.78) | <0.0001 | 1 | 1.80 (1.48–2.18) | <0.0001 |
| Any unoperated cataract⁎⁎ | 1 | 2.35 (2.03–2.71) | 7.01 (5.65–8.70) | <0.0001 | 1 | 1.81 (1.58–2.07) | <0.0001 |
| Any operated or unoperated cataract†† | 1 | 2.57 (2.23–2.96) | 8.04 (6.48–9.97) | <0.0001 | 1 | 1.80 (1.59–2.02) | <0.0001 |
CI = confidence interval; OR = odds ratios adjusted for age for effects of gender and for gender for effects of age; PSC = posterior subcapsular cataract.
Includes 2511 with any nuclear cataract (pure or mixed nuclear cataracts) defined as Lens Opacity Classification System III (LOCS III) ≥ 4 compared with 1600 people with no cataract of any type or lens opacities or aphakia/pseudophakia.
Includes 527 with any cortical cataract (pure or mixed) defined as LOCS III ≥ 3 compared with 1600 people with no cataract of any type or lens opacities or aphakia/pseudophakia.
Includes 1122 with any PSC (pure or mixed posterior subcapsular opacity) defined as LOCS III ≥ 2 compared with 1600 people with no cataract of any type or lens opacities or aphakia/pseudophakia.
Includes 3241 with any unoperated cataract (any nuclear cataract or cortical cataract or PSC cataract or with dense opacities) compared with 1600 people with no cataract of any type or lens opacities or aphakia/pseudophakia.
Includes 4271 with any operated or unoperated cataract compared with 1600 people with no cataract of any type or lens opacities or aphakia/pseudophakia.