Background: There is increasing evidence that visual impairment contribute to falling. The aim of this study was to determine the influence of vision impairment of old adult patients with cataract on the occurrence of falls and postural control. Methods:According to the results of screening ophthalmic examination, 48 cataract patients (mean±SD aged 68.5 ± 6.08 yrs.) and 50 individuals withou...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the global cost of establishing and operating the educational and refractive care facilities required to provide care to all individuals who currently have vision impairment resulting from uncorrected refractive error (URE). METHODS The global cost of correcting URE was estimated using data on the population, the prevalence of URE and the number of existing refractive ca...

With the increasing aging population, the number of veterans presenting with dual sensory impairment (DSI) (vision and hearing impairments) will increase. This study determined the prevalence and clinical characteristics of DSI in a veteran population receiving healthcare from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). A retrospective review was conducted on 400 charts randomly selected from a da...

purpose : to determine the prevalence of the uncorrected refractive errors in bojnourd students methods : in a cross-sectional study, the samples were selected proportionate to the population of the schools using stratified randomized cluster sampling. the target population was the primary and junior high school students of the city of bojnourd. visual acuity (va) (snellen chart) and cycloplegi...

IMPORTANCE Working is critical to personal health and well-being. We examine the association of vision measured objectively with work status using a nationally representative sample of working-age Americans. OBSERVATION A total of 19 849 participants from the 1999-2008 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey completed a vision examination and employment/demographic questionnaires. Em...

C often encounter a situation where residual impairment in vision continue to persist despite adequate and timely treatment (full time, full spectacle correction and/or patching) of children with (ISO) ametropic or anisometropic amblyopia. A repeat evaluation of the optical media, retina and rest of the visual pathway may or may not reveal a previously unrecognised pathology. Not infrequently h...

To investigate the prevalence and causes of visual impairment and blindness in a sample of Polish older adults. The study was designed in a cross-sectional and observational manner. Data concerning the vision status were assessed in 2214 eyes from 1107 subjects of European Caucasian origin; most of whom live in the city of Lodz, in central Poland. Visual impairment was defined as distance visua...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the impact of pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE), a rare hereditary disease of concurrent vision impairment (VI) and cardiovascular complications (CVCs), on vision-related (VRQoL) and health-related quality of life (HRQoL). METHODS VRQoL and HRQoL were assessed using the Impact of Vision Impairment (IVI) questionnaire and the Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) in 107 PXE pa...

background: there is increasing evidence that visual impairment contribute to falling. the aim of this study was to determine the influence of vision impairment of old adult patients with cataract on the occurrence of falls and postural control. methods:according to the results of screening ophthalmic examination, 48 cataract patients (mean±sd aged 68.5 ± 6.08 yrs.) and 50 individuals without a...