Abstract: bjectives To investigate constitutive proportion of hospitalized patients with cataract in the Second People Hospital of Foshan in 2013. Design Hospital-based cross-section study. Participants Hospitalized cataract patients in the Second People Hospital of Foshan in 2013. Method Data of the electronic medical record of cataract cases were reviewed and analyzed. Main Outcome Measures The constitution and distribution of cataract type, stay length and date of hospitalization. Results 3763 cataract patients were hospitalized in 2013, accounting for 58.69% of all patients of hospitalization.  3755 cases were met for inclusion criteria, and there were 1512 males (40.3%). Age-related cataract, complicated cataract, metabolic cataract, traumatic cataract and congenital cataract accounted for 85.9%, 7.3%, 4.3%, 0.6 % and 0.2%, respectively. The gender ratio of female to male in age-related cataract was 1.5:1, metabolic cataract 1.6:1, traumatic cataract 1:3. The average stay length of hospitalization in age-related cataract was (1.3±1.2) days, while traumatic cataract was (2.0±1.4) days. The number of cataract surgery was the least in February (115 cases), while the most in November (434 cases). Conclusions In cataract hospitalized patients in the department of ophthalmology of prefecture-level city of Guangdong, age-related cataract is still the most common type of cataract. For age-related cataract and metabolic cataract patients, women are more than men, while for traumatic cataract men are more than women. There is a significant seasonal fluctuation in the number of cataract inpatients. (Ophthalmol CHN, 2015, 24: 56-58)

Key words: cataract, hospitalized constitutive proportion