Causes of blindness and visual impairment in urban and rural areas in Beijing: the Beijing Eye Study

Ophthalmology
Liang XuJost B Jonas

Abstract

To evaluate the causes of visual impairment and blindness in adult Chinese in an urban and rural region of Beijing, China. Population-based prevalence survey. From a rural region and an urban region of Greater Beijing, 4439 of 5324 > or=40-year-old invited subjects participated in the study (response rate, 83.4%). Using the World Health Organization (WHO) standard and the United States standard, blindness was defined as best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) in the better-seeing eye of <20/400 and of <2/20, respectively, and visual impairment was defined as best-corrected vision of <20/60 and > or =20/400, and of <20/40 and > or =2/20, respectively. Determination of BCVA, pneumotonometry, frequency doubling perimetry, evaluation of photographs of the fundus and lens, and clinical examination. Causes of visual impairment and blindness. Visual acuity measurements were available for 8816 eyes of 4409 subjects (99.3%). Using the WHO standard and the U.S. standard, 49 (1.1%) subjects and 95 (2.2%) subjects, respectively, had low vision, and 13 (0.3%) subjects and 15 (0.3%) subjects, respectively, were blind by definition. Taking the whole study population, the most frequent cause of low vision/blindness was cataract (36.7%/38.5%), foll...Continue Reading

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