Testing time for the sunlight hypothesis of cataract
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Characterization of Molecular Mechanisms of In vivo UVR Induced Cataract
Published on: November 28, 2012
1Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, University of Oxford, UK.
Current Opinion in Ophthalmology
|January 8, 1996
Abstract:
The proceedings of a 2-day workshop on the role of sunlight in cataract formation have provided an opportunity to assess the importance of this widely discussed risk factor. There seems to be no role in nuclear cataract, and any role in cortical or posterior subcapsular cataract is scarcely measurable.
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