Epidemiological survey of eye diseases in the predisease stage
10.13389/j.cnki.rao.2024.0033
- VernacularTitle:重视眼病前期的流行病学调查
- Author:
Huaijin GUAN
1
;
Min JI
Author Information
1. 226001 江苏省南通市,南通大学附属医院眼科中心
- Keywords:
eye disease in the predisease stage;
blindness prevention;
epidemiologic study;
intervention
- From:
Recent Advances in Ophthalmology
2024;44(3):169-172
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Epidemiologic study is an essential scientific basis for disease prevention,intervention and health policy making.Predisease often refers to the abnormal state found in epidemiologic study/screening,which has not yet reached the diagnostic criteria for the disease.It is the"in-between"state from a healthy state to a diseased state;if not intervened properly,it will develop into a disease.Predisease includes precancerous lesions,prediabetes,prehypertension,as well as eye diseases in the predisease stage,such as premyopia,preglaucoma and ocular complications of prediabetes.Proper in-tervention in predisease,when no clinical manifestations were found,or the very early stage can prevent the occurrence of diseases.However,ophthalmologists have not paid enough attention to the epidemiologic study of eye diseases in the pre-disease stage and have known little about how to conduct the epidemiologic study.Herein,this paper discussed the epide-miologic study of several common eye diseases with high prevalence and significant visual impairment in the predisease sta-ges based on experience in the relevant field.
