Senile Cataract in Arar, Northern Saudi Arabia: Hospital Based Study
Alanazi, W., Alanazi, N., Alotaibi, H., Altaleb, F., Alanazi, A., Alanazi, A., Alenezi, Y. (2017). Senile Cataract in Arar, Northern Saudi Arabia: Hospital Based Study. EKB Journal Management System, 69(7), 2930-2934. doi: 10.12816/0042587
Wafa Mohammed Falah Alanazi; Najah Salah F Alanazi; Hanan Khalid Alotaibi; Fatimah Fahad Altaleb; Aseel Menwer Alanazi; Arwa Nughaymish Alanazi; Yusef Muhana Alenezi. "Senile Cataract in Arar, Northern Saudi Arabia: Hospital Based Study". EKB Journal Management System, 69, 7, 2017, 2930-2934. doi: 10.12816/0042587
Alanazi, W., Alanazi, N., Alotaibi, H., Altaleb, F., Alanazi, A., Alanazi, A., Alenezi, Y. (2017). 'Senile Cataract in Arar, Northern Saudi Arabia: Hospital Based Study', EKB Journal Management System, 69(7), pp. 2930-2934. doi: 10.12816/0042587
Alanazi, W., Alanazi, N., Alotaibi, H., Altaleb, F., Alanazi, A., Alanazi, A., Alenezi, Y. Senile Cataract in Arar, Northern Saudi Arabia: Hospital Based Study. EKB Journal Management System, 2017; 69(7): 2930-2934. doi: 10.12816/0042587

Senile Cataract in Arar, Northern Saudi Arabia: Hospital Based Study

The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine
Article 28, Volume 69, Issue 7, October 2017, Page 2930-2934  XML PDF (451.18 K)
Document Type: Original Article
DOI: 10.12816/0042587
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Authors
Wafa Mohammed Falah Alanazi1; Najah Salah F Alanazi1; Hanan Khalid Alotaibi1; Fatimah Fahad Altaleb1; Aseel Menwer Alanazi1; Arwa Nughaymish Alanazi1; Yusef Muhana Alenezi2
1Faculty of Medicine, Northern Border University, Arar
2Family and Community Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Northern Border University, Arar, KSA.
Abstract
Background: Senile cataract is an age-related, vision-impairing disease characterized by gradual progressive thickening of the lens of the eye. It is the world’s leading cause of treatable blindness.
The objective of this study was to identify the percentage and determinants of Senile Cataract in Arar, Northern Saudi Arabia. Methods:  The current study is a hospital based conducted in Arar Cental Hospital, for the period from 1/3/ 2016 to 30/9/2017. All elderly patients referred to or admitted to the hospital ocular department and who were clinically suspected to have Cataract were included in the study after obtaining an informed consent from them. Exclusion criteria included patients who refused to participate in the study. Data was collected through face to face interview and filling a questionnaire which included questions about age, sex of participants, signs and symptoms of cataract and it's complications, presence of comorbidities. Results: The study included 134 cases, 95.5% of the studied cases had Cataract, of them 53.9% were males and 46.1% females, 53.1% aged between 50-60. One third of the cases had cataract for less than one year, 37.5% for -2 years. Fifty five (43%) reported foggy vision, 17.2% see halos around the light, 15.6% reported problems in seeing bright colors, 12.5% problems with night vision and 11.7% reported fad in colors and 0.6% had complete blindness.  Twenty nine (22.7%) of the cases had DM, 17.2% were obese, 16.4% had hypertension, 6.2% had IHD and 28.1% were smokers. Only 49.2% had cataract operation but  succeeded in 28.9% of them. Conclusions: We found senile cataract in 95.5% of the studied old aged participants, there was high rates of no operated cataract in older people in North Saudi Arabia. Males had higher rates of cataract, and 0.6% had complete blindness.
 
Keywords
Senile Cataract; determinants; Arar; Northern Saudi Arabia
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