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|Articles|January 17, 2018
Cataract surgery may prolong life in older women
Author(s)Doug Katsev, MD
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A prospective cohort study from the Women’s Health Initiative, published in
Turns out that in this study, cataract surgery was associated with a lower risk for all-cause mortality, as well as a lower risk of dying from accidental, vascular, neurologic, cancer, and infectious diseases.
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