Abstract
Introduction: The purpose behind conducting this study was to determine if hypertension increases the risk of cataract, to find out common morphological types of cataract in hypertensive patients, to determine relation between grade of hypertension and grade of nuclear sclerosis and to compare prevalence rates of cataract in hypertensive patients on anti-hypertensive drugs and those not on anti-hypertensive drugs. Materials & Methods: Comparative study of cataract in hypertensive patients and non- hypertensive patients was crriedout in in Department of ophthalmology at Ashwini Rural Medical College, Kumbhari, Solapur with 300 eligible participants. Results: This was a comparative study with 156 hypertensive and 144 non-hypertensive patients. Prevalence of cataract was found to be 79.53%. Prevalence of cataract was significantly higher in eyes of hypertensive patients as compared to eyes of non-hypertensive patients; (87.83% and 70.8% respectively, with p-value
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