Mayo Clinic: Cataract surgeries performed at steady rate of increase J Cataract Refract Surg. 2013;39(9):1383-1389. The number of incident cataract surgeries continues to increase at a steady rate, with the greatest number of surgeries performed in the most recent year analyzed, according to a study. In a population-based extended study of medical records in Olmsted County, Minn., Mayo Clinic researchers merged 7 years of data from 2005 to 2011 with data from 1980 to 2004 to create a cataract registry spanning 3 decades. In the most recent 7-year period, 8,012 cataract surgeries were performed on 5,725 patients, with the number of surgeries increasing significantly over the period and reaching a peak rate of 1,100 per 100,000 in 2011 (P < .001). The rate of cataract surgeries in women increased over the 2005 to 2011 time span compared with the previous 7 years, but no significant change in the rate of increase was seen in men. The number of second-eye surgeries performed within 3 months of first-eye surgery at least doubled over the number performed in the previous 7 years (P
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