| Title: | Monocular and binocular visual impairment in the UK Biobank study: prevalence, associations and diagnoses |
| Journal: | BMJ Open Ophthalmol |
| Published: | 31 Jan 2018 |
| Pubmed: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29657974/ |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjophth-2017-000076 |
Publication 1462
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Abstract
Visual Impairment: For the 65,033 UK Biobank participants, aged 40-69, with enhanced eye assessments, 6,682 (10.3%) and 1,677 (2.6%) had mild visual impairment or worse in one or both eyes respectively. The prevalence of visual impairment in the UK Biobank study cohort is lower than for population-based studies from other industrialised countries. Increasing Townsend deprivation score, age and ethnicity were independently associated with both monocular and binocular visual impairment. The most common identifiable diagnoses leading to monocular visual impairment were cataract, amblyopia, uncorrected refractive error (URE) and vitreo-retinal interface abnormalities (VRIA). The most common diagnoses leading to visual impairment in the better-seeing eyes of those with binocular visual impairment were URE, cataract and VRIA. No primary diagnosis for the recorded level of visual impairment could be identified for 49.8% of eyes. The UK Biobank dataset may therefore be inadequate to identify the causes of visual impairment with confidence.1 Author
- McKibbin M et al.
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| 1100 | The causes of and risk factors for visual impairment in middle-aged adults in the UK Biobank |
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