%0 Journal Article
%T Prevalencia de la catarata en el municipio Camag¨¹ey
%A Mart¨ªnez Castro
%A Sureya
%A Pay¨¢n Echavarr¨ªa
%A Taimys
%A Lage Castro
%A Dionicio
%A Cardoso Guill¨¦n
%A El¨ªas
%J Revista Archivo M£¿£¿dico de Camag£¿£¿ey
%D 2010
%I Centro Provincial de Informaci¨®n de Ciencias M¨¦dicas de Camag¨¹ey
%X background: cataract is the main cause of treated blindness in the world. it is considered that 20 millions of blind people because cataract exist, being these ones responsible for the 50% of blindness at world level. objective: to determine the prevalence of cataract in camag¨¹ey municipality from december 2006 to june 2007. method: a descriptive study in patients with cataract attended at the ophthalmological center of camag¨¹ey carlos j. finlay was performed. the study universe was constituted by six-hundred-five patients older than fifteen years attended in the consultation of cataract. the sample was selected by means of experts- criterion, which was integrated by fifty-seven patients with cataract diagnostic. the study variables were: age, sex, occupation, visual acuity, cause of cataract. results: it was determined that the greatest percent of patients presented a severe visual loss; 52,23% had no risk occupations. the senile cause represented 68, 79% of the cases and the general prevalence was about the 25,95%. conclusions: cataract prevalence increased with the age.
%K cataract [etiology]
%K adult
%K cross-sectional studies
%K prevalence.
%U http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1025-02552010000400009&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en