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American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 144, No. 5: 496-500
Copyright © 1996 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health

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Association between Low Plasma Vitamin E Concentration and Progression of Early Cortical Lens Opacities

Päivi Rouhiainen1, Harri Rouhiainen2 and Jukka T. Salonen1,

1The Research Institute of Public Health, University of Kuopio Kuopio, Finland
2The Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital of Kuopio Kuopio, Finland

Reprint requests to Prof. Jukka T. Salonen, Research Institute of Public Health, University of Kuopio, Box 1627, 70211 Kuopio, Finland.

The authors evaluated the association between plasma vitamin E content and progression of eye lens opacrities. A total of 410 hypercholesterolemic eastern Finnish men participated in the study from January 1990 to September 1993 in Kuopio, Finland. Lens opacities were classified three times at 18-month intervals using the Lens Opacities Classification System II. A low plasma vitamin E level (lowest quartile) was associated with a 3.7-fold excess risk (95% confidence interval 1.2–11.8) of the progression of earty cortical lens opacities compared with the highest quartile (p = 0.028). In addition, the number of cigarettes smoked daily was a significant predictor of the progression of cortical lens opacity (relative risk = 1.06 per cigarette, 95% confidence interval 1.003–1.12). The progression of nuclear lens opacrities was not associated with either the plasma vitamin E content or smoking. The data suggest that low plasma vitamin E content may be associated with increased risk of the progression of early cortical lens opacity. Am J Epidemiol 1996; 144: 496–500.

antioxidants; cataract; lens opacities; smoking; vitamin E


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