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Smoking linked to cataracts in large studies
Two major studies in the Journal of the American Medical Association find heavy smoking raises cataract risk two to threefold. Nurses Health Study and Physicians Health Study show higher surgery rates among smokers, with Medicare costs and US prevalence highlighted. experts call the link increasingly convincing and note potential protective nutrients.
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Medicare
William G Christen
Harvard Medical School
Susan E. Hankinson
Harvard
Hankinson
Nurses Health Study
Physicians
Journal of the American Medical Association
Robert D. Sperduto
Sheila West
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
Maryland
West
U.S
The
Tobacco Institute
British Medical Journal
Nurses Health