The Clinical Survey on the Prevalence of Eye Diseases in Elderly Patients in Sungnam-Shi Area.
- Author:
Kwang Bum KIM
1
;
Jong Cheol PARK
;
Beak Ran SONG
;
Bon Sool KOO
Author Information
1. Department of Ophthalmology, Inha Hospital, Inha University, Sungnam, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Age of 60 or over;
Blindness;
Cataract;
Systemic disease
- MeSH:
Aged*;
Blindness;
Cataract;
Diabetes Mellitus;
Diagnosis;
Eye Diseases*;
Gyeonggi-do*;
Heart Diseases;
Humans;
Hypertension;
Ophthalmology;
Optic Nerve;
Prevalence*;
Retinaldehyde;
Retrospective Studies;
Visual Acuity
- From:Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society
1993;34(12):1281-1286
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
We retrospectively surveyed total 628 outpatients(1,256 eyes) of age of 60 or over who visited our department of ophthalmology with review of diagnosis, visiual acuity and associated systemic diseases during 3 years from 1988 to 1990 at the Inha University Hospital. The most prevalent ocular disease was cataract, which was diagnosed in 30.7% of total patients. The other disorders comprised conjunctival diseases(21.5%), retinal disease(18.8%), refractive errors(6.5%), lid and lacrimal diseases(5.7%), corneal diseases(5.1%), vitreous diseases(4.6%), glaucoma(4.0%), optic nerve diseases(0.79%) and uveal diseases(0.79%). The blindess was definded as 0.1 or worse of corrected visual acuity and 28% of examined eyes were conuted as the blindness. Proportion of blindness by causes were as follwed: cataract(56%), corneal diseases(10%), diabetic retinopathy(8%), glaucoma(6%), hypertensive retinopathy(5%) and vitreous diseases(3%). Various systemic diseases were associated with ocular disorders in 24% of total cases. Among them, the most prevalent systemic disease was hypertension, 36%, and diabetes mellitus 30% in next, with the following of respiratory diseases 13%, heart diseases 6%, neurologic diseases 5%, hepatobiliary diseases 5%.
