It would seem obvious that better vision results in fewer falls and therefore fewer fractured hips. Now a new study of more than a million US Medicare patients from Dr Victoria Tseng and colleagues, from the Medical School at Brown University, found that patients who had had cataract surgery were 16-28% less likely to break a hip in the year after the surgery compared to those who had not undergone surgery.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/1273017
Why are hip fractures a concern? A large study of elderly women found that within the subsequent 12 months of a fractured hip, the patient was twice as like to die compared to uninjured patients.
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