April 28, 2011 
The groups at the greatest risk are asthmatics on steroid medications, those who suffer from severe myopia, persons with history of illness in their family or people who have suffered eye trauma…
People often in their 40-is and 50-is justify blurred vision, difficultly in seeing at night and faded colors with their advanced age, and are not even aware that those can be the first signs of cataract, British doctors discovered. It’s amazing that these symptoms has every seventh man in those years and all of them think it can easily be corrected with eyeglasses for reading, writes the Daily Mail. Stronger glasses do not solve the problem. The only way is the surgery under local anesthesia, which takes 40 minutes.
– Twenty years ago there were few cases of someone younger than 60 years having cataract. If they had, it was because of health problems such as diabetes or suffering a trauma. But in the last eight months I was visited by four healthy patients in their 40-is who have cataract – said an ophthalmic surgeon Shafiq Rehman.
Although cataract is characteristic of older people, new figures show that it affects one percent of the population between 45 and 55 years. The groups at the greatest risk are asthmatics on steroid medications, those who suffer from severe myopia, persons with history of illness in the family or people who have suffered eye trauma. Heavy drinking and smoking also increase the risk. Although exposure to UV radiation is often cited as a cause of cataract, there is no solid evidence for it.
– Britain has the same rate of patients with cataract as Australia, which is much sunnier, which is solid evidence that there is no association between exposure to UV radiation and cataract – said Rehman.
Taken from: www.24sata.hr