Hey there all of you Wise Family Eye fans and welcome to this week’s edition of our Q&A!
Each week, we will look to answer some of your most popular questions. If you have an eye-health or ophthalmology-related question you wish to have answered, please comment below and we’ll hope to have your response within future weeks.
Today, we have an eye-health related question for you:
Q: Who is at risk of developing cataracts?
A: Generally, cataracts develop as part of the aging process, so everyone is at risk eventually. By age 75, about 70 percent of people will have cataracts. As we age, the eye’s lens slowly becomes less flexible, less transparent and thicker. Then areas of the lens become cloudy as protein in the lens begins to clump together.
As June is Cataracts Awareness Month, our Wise Family Eye team strives to share the most educational information as possible with our current and potential patients.
