Cataracts
Who gets cataracts?
Duration 0:35
Professor Andrew Luff, Ophthalmic Surgeon and Founding Consultant, explains what causes cataracts and who is most likely to be diagnosed with cataracts. Getting surgery for cataracts will depend on your preferences, but cataracts will worsen without treatment.
Professor Andrew Luff, Ophthalmic Surgeon and Founding Consultant, explains what causes cataracts and who is most likely to be diagnosed with cataracts. Getting surgery for cataracts will depend on your preferences, but cataracts will worsen without treatment.
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Absolutely, anyone can get cataract and there’s usually no underlying reason. Very rarely you might have had previous surgery or have taken steroids, for example, but usually there’s just simply no cause. It happens idiopathically, as we say. It can happen at any age, but as the years tick by it becomes more common. So by the time we’re into our 70s, most people will have evidence of lens opacity, cataract, and at that age it may become reasonable to consider surgery.
