… that first eye cataract surgery is … of a first fall during the 1 year follow up period, but there
was a 40% reduction in the risk of recurrent falls, a 34% reduction in the overall rate of falling, …

… alongside a randomised controlled trial of first eye cataract surgery in secondary care …
of 306 women over 70 years old with bilateral cataracts was randomised to cataract surgery (…

… Some binocular functions (eg stereopsis) are associated with falls. We aimed to determine
if second eye cataract surgery reduces the risk of falling and to measure associated health …

… error as secondary outcomes, before surgery and after first and second eye cataract surgery.
… Many of these limitations could be averted in the randomised control trial we are planning. …

… Citation7 However, earlier randomized controlled trials reported that while first eye … relatively
small in our cohort following first and second eye cataract surgeries. This may be because …

… found that an intervention to correct vision of older community-dwelling adults by updating
spectacles or providing cataract surgery increased the risk for falls in a randomized controlled …

… A reduction in the rate of falls was found in a randomised … reduction in falls rate with expedited
first eye cataract surgery (… to cataract surgery, and after first and second eye surgeries. This …

… older women [14] and a prospective study from the USA also found no difference in falls after
cataract surgery … in hospitalisation for falls in the year after first-eye cataract surgery only [16]…

… In the single randomized controlled trial of expedited cataract surgery conducted to … after
first eye cataract surgery, compared to the prior year. Both studies relied on retrospective falls …

… comparing the rate of falls after cataract surgery in a group … while surgery in the second eye
had no significant impact on falls … provide weaker evidence than randomised controlled trials, …