Prevalence and associations of presenting near-vision impairment in the Australian National Eye Health Survey

Purpose To describe the prevalence and associations of presenting near vision impairment (NVI) in Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Methods A sample of 3098 non-Indigenous Australians (aged 50–98 years) and 1738 Indigenous Australians (aged 40–92 years) living in 30 randomly selected Austra...

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Published in:Eye (London) 2018-03, Vol.32 (3), p.506-514
Main Authors: Keel, S, Foreman, J, Xie, J, Taylor, H R, Dirani, M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acuity
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Australia - epidemiology
Australia - ethnology
Binocular vision
Clinical Study
Cross-Sectional Studies
Female
Health Surveys
Humans
Laboratory Medicine
Male
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Middle Aged
Myopia - epidemiology
Myopia - ethnology
Ophthalmology
Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology
Prevalence
Public health
Risk Factors
Surgery
Surgical Oncology
Visual Acuity
Visual impairment
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Summary:Purpose To describe the prevalence and associations of presenting near vision impairment (NVI) in Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Methods A sample of 3098 non-Indigenous Australians (aged 50–98 years) and 1738 Indigenous Australians (aged 40–92 years) living in 30 randomly selected Australian sites were examined as part of the population-based National Eye Health Survey (NEHS). Binocular presenting NVI was defined as near vision worse than N8 (20/50). Results In total, 4817 participants (99.6% of the total sample, comprising 3084 non-Indigenous Australians and 1733 Indigenous Australians) had complete data on near visual acuity. The overall weighted prevalence of presenting NVI was 21.6% (95% CI: 19.6, 23.8) in non-Indigenous Australians and 34.7% (95% CI: 29.2, 40.8) among Indigenous Australians. In the non-Indigenous population, higher odds of presenting NVI were associated with older age (OR=1.68 per 10 years, P
ISSN:0950-222X
1476-5454
DOI:10.1038/eye.2017.317