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Elderly patients (\u226560 years) diagnosed with cataract from 2002 through 2012 were included. The baseline characteristics included demographics and systemic and ocular comorbidities. Adjusted Cox regression models with time-varying covariates for cataract surgery were used to assess the relationship between cataract surgery and mortality. The study cohort included 241,062 patients, of whom 127,941 were in the cataract surgery group and 113,121 were in the cataract diagnosis group. The incidence of all-cause mortality was 3.62 deaths\/100 person-years and 3.19 deaths\/100 person-years in the cataract surgery and cataract diagnosis groups, respectively. Cataract surgery was associated with a decreased hazard of all-cause mortality after adjusting for demographics as well as systemic and ocular comorbidities (hazard ratio (HR), 0.93; p &lt; 0.001). A protective association was noted between cataract surgery and mortality from vascular (HR, 0.92; p &lt; 0.001) or neurologic (HR, 0.64; p &lt; 0.001) causes. Patients with cataract who were 85 years of age and older, women, those who had lower income, and a Charlson comorbidity index score of 5 or more, or those without glaucoma revealed the largest reductions in mortality hazards resulting from cataract surgery.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jpm11111128","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,1]],"date-time":"2021-11-01T22:22:24Z","timestamp":1635805344000},"page":"1128","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Relationship between Cataract Surgery and Mortality in Elderly Patients with Cataract: Nationwide Population-Based Cohort Study in South Korea"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8571-8350","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jae-Yong","family":"Kim","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Asan Medical Center, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul 05505, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8735-1684","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ho-Seok","family":"Chung","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Ophthalmology, Dankook University Hospital, Dankook University College of Medicine, Cheonan 31116, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8194-3462","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ji-Sung","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Clinical Research Center, Asan Medical Center, Asan Institute for Life Sciences, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul 05505, Korea"},{"name":"Asan Medical Center, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul 05505, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7225-6580","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hun","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Asan Medical Center, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul 05505, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hungwon","family":"Tchah","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Asan Medical Center, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul 05505, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"115","article-title":"Global data on blindness","volume":"73","author":"Thylefors","year":"1995","journal-title":"Bull. 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