High Risk of Early Cataracts in Young Type 1 Diabetes Group: A Nationwide Cohort Study

Table 2

The hazard ratio (HR) of cataracts between the type 1 diabetes (T1D) group and the Longitudinal Health Insurance Database (LHID) group stratified by age of enrollment and gender. The younger T1D group had a higher HR of cataracts.

	T1D (n = 3622)		LHID (n = 3622)		Crude HR (95% CI)
	Cataract no(%)	Time to cataract, mo±SD	Cataract no(%)	Time to cataract, mo±SD
Follow-up (mo)	120.20 ± 42.22		133.02 ± 35.60
Age of enrollment (yrs)
<10	17 (0.5)	73.51 ± 38.48	0 (0.0)	N/A	N/A
10–19	101 (2.8)	62.96 ± 47.12	0 (0.0)	N/A	N/A
20–29	101 (2.8)	52.36 ± 40.41	1 (0.02)	124.83 ± 0.00	112.6 (15.72, 807.2)
30–39	94 (2.60)	64.62 ± 47.38	8 (0.2)	119.26 ± 58.73	13.75 (6.68, 28.31)
40–49	69 (1.91)	61.29 ± 39.43	14 (0.4)	78.25 ± 45.89	6.10 (3.43, 10.85)
50–59	40 (1.10)	51.05 ± 34.85	29 (0.8)	77.62 ± 43.55	1.79 (1.11, 2,89)
60+	25 (0.69)	22.01 ± 25.34	32 (0.9)	44.34 ± 43.72	0.86 (0.51, 1.45)
Gender
Male	176 (4.9)	56.49 ± 39.24	36 (1.0)	56.03 ± 38.28	5.20 (3.64, 7.45)
Female	272 (7.5)	58.47 ± 45.74	48 (1.3)	79.74 ± 51.62	6.29 (4.63, 8.55)
Total	448 (12.4)	57.69 ± 43.27	84 (2.3)	69.58 ± 47.61	5.81 (4.60, 7.33)

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