| dc.description.abstract | Abstract
BACKGROUND
Cataract is a kind of disease which causes blurring at eye lens. Cataract is the most causes of blindness in the developing country. Oxiterol or oxidized cholesterol cause sitotoxic effect in the fiber lens of eye and contribute of developing to be cataract. Oxiterol was formed from cholesterol autooxidation process, free radical attack and enzymatic process.
AIM
To study the effect of blood cholesterol level on cataract maturity.
METHODS
This research character is analytic observational with cross sectional approaches. The research were conducted on September – December 2014 at Bantul, Yogyakarta. The criteria of inclution are man and women who have age more than 50 years. Additionally, patient with history of diabetes mellitus, eye trauma, chronic infection and long-range of steroid usage. Detection of cholesterol was conducted by cholesterol stick. The eye observation was done by ophthalmologist. The data was analyzed using Kendall tau correlation assay.
RESULT
The results showed that counted 45 responder (90 eyes) gathered in this research. The are 33,3% (30 eyes) diagnosed as a immature cataract and 66,6% (60 pair of eyes) diagnosed as a insipien cataract. Result of the data analysis shown r = 0,591, that indicate blood cholesterol rate have influence to cataract maturity level. Then, the meaning of significancy value was showed that p = 0,000.
CONCLUSION
Cholesterol level in the blood affects toward cataract maturity.
KEYWORDS: Blood cholesterol rate, cataract | en_US |
