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Abstract #19427 Published in IGR 9-3
Epidemiology investigation of eye diseases in people over 50 years old in Guangzhou, China
Liu J-M; Zhang L; Huang Z-N; Shen Y-Y; Fei W-L; Chen J-P; Xiong Z-QInternational Journal of Ophthalmology 2007; 7: 852-853
AIM: To research the occurrence of eye diseases in old people in Guangzhou, China. METHODS: A total of 266 people over 50 years old in natural population in the city of Guangzhou were selected to undertake vision, correct vision, slit-lamp microscopy, eye ground and introcular pressure (IOP) examination. RESULTS: Among all the 266 people, 87 people had more than two types of eye diseases, 232 had cataract (87.2%), 36 had conjunctiva disease (13.5%), 24 had error of refraction (9.0%), 20 had glaucoma or suspicious glaucoma (7.5%), 17 had retina disease (7.5%), 10 had normalitybe (3.8%). The other eye diseases occurred in less than 10 cases. Among the 532 eyes of the 266 cases, the vision was less than 0.05 in 28 eyes (5.3%), 0.05-0.3 in 131 eyes (24.6%) and above 0.3 in 373 eyes (70.1%). For those with vision less than 0.3, the loss of vision were caused by cataract in 129 eyes (81.1%). For the 532 eyes of the 266 cases, the average IOP was 14.745 mmHg, and 27 eyes (5.1%) had IOP above 21 mmHg. CONCLUSION: Cataract is the most commen eye disease and has higher incidence than other eye diseases in old people. Considerable low visions are caused by cataract and many cataract patients still need operation currently in developed city, with glaucoma occurred in some of their eyes. LA: Chinese
Dr. L. Zhang, Department of Ophthalmology, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangzhou 510080 Guangdong Province, China. zhangliang1@medmail.com.cn
Classification:
1.1 Epidemiology (Part of: 1 General aspects)