Association between cataract surgery and diabetic retinopathy incidence and progression: an 11-year population-based retrospective cohort study
Ya-Chu Chang, Jen-Hung Wang, Wei-Tse Chen, Cheng-Jen Chiu · 2026
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Ya-Chu Chang, Jen-Hung Wang, Wei-Tse Chen, and Cheng-Jen Chiu ask whether cataract surgery harms the diabetic eye in this two thousand twenty-six population study. Taiwan's claims cover nearly the whole public. The team followed adults with diabetes and cataract from twenty ten to twenty twenty-one. Over fifteen thousand had first-time surgery and a like number did not. Matching on age, sex, and health traits yielded about seventy-eight hundred pairs.
Surgery was linked to higher risk of new diabetic eye disease and of worsening disease within one year. In one matched set, the odds of new retinopathy were three point four times higher after surgery. The authors do not claim surgery itself is the cause; removing the cloudy lens may let doctors see disease already there. Either way, the year after surgery is a key window to watch the retina in patients.
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| CREATOR | Ya-Chu Chang, Jen-Hung Wang, Wei-Tse Chen, Cheng-Jen Chiu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 44 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |