Association between conventional or blue-light-filtering intraocular lenses and survival in bilateral cataract surgery patients.

ABSTRACT: Circadian rhythms regulate adaptive alterations in mammalian physiology and are maximally entrained by the short wavelength blue spectrum; cataracts block the transmission of light, particularly blue light. Cataract surgery is performed with two types of intraocular lenses (IOL): (1) conventional IOL that transmit the entire visible spectrum and (2) blue-light-filtering (BF) IOL that block the short wavelength blue spectrum. We hypothesized that the transmission properties of IOL are associated with long-term survival. This retrospective cohort study of a 15-hospital healthcare system identified 9,108 participants who underwent bilateral cataract surgery; 3,087 were implanted with conventional IOL and 6,021 received BF-IOL. Multivariable Cox proportional hazards models that included severa

SUBMITTER: Griepentrog JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7809500 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature