Study links cataract with high-salt diet

New research has claimed that a high intake of salt in a personÕs diet may increase the risk of cataract development.
News agency Reuters reported this week that Australian researchers had found that people on a high-salt diet, compared to those on a low-salt diet, were twice as likely to develop posterior subcapsular cataract. In the research study by the University of Sydney, published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, almost 3,000 adults aged between 49 and 97 had their eyes examined.
Of those, 160 participants had posterior cataracts while 970 had one of the two other types not associated with salt intake.