Association between pneumoconiosis and cataract risk: a nationwide retrospective cohort study in Taiwan
Jen-Suo Cheng, Yen-Sung Lin, Cheng-Li Lin, Ning-Yi Hsia, Te-Chun Shen, Der-Yang Cho · 2025
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Description
Jen-Suo Cheng and co-authors present a 2025 population study asking whether dust-damaged lungs raise the risk of cataract. Pneumoconiosis scars the lungs of miners and stone workers after years of dust. Whether clouded lenses follow more often was unknown.
Taiwan's national insurance records supplied nearly twenty thousand patients diagnosed between 2001 and 2020, matched against four times as many dust-free controls. Cataracts appeared more often in the patient group, about thirty-nine versus thirty-five cases per thousand person-years. After adjustment, the risk ran about twenty-two percent higher. The elevation held for both sexes and every age band. The authors also probe steroid use inside the patient group. They suggest eye checks belong in follow-up care for dust disease.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jen-Suo Cheng, Yen-Sung Lin, Cheng-Li Lin, Ning-Yi Hsia, Te-Chun Shen, Der-Yang Cho |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 25 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |