メディケア受給者の白内障手術後の骨折のリスク

Victoria L Tseng1, Fei Yu, Flora Lum

  • 1Division of Ophthalmology, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island , USA.

JAMA
|August 2, 2012
PubMed
まとめ

白内障手術は,高齢の成人において,股関節骨折のリスクを軽減する可能性があります. この研究では,白内障手術を受けたメディケアの受給者は,手術後1年以内に股関節骨折の可能性が低いことがわかりました.

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