Table 2.

Hospital admission in visually impaired people aged 75 years and above

				Model 1		Model 2		Model 3
Binocular presenting vision with usual glasses.	Number of people with data on hospital admission	Admissions	Person-years	Rate ratio	95% CI	Rate ratio	95% CI	Rate ratio	95% CI
Good vision > 6/9	7107	2302	13561.9	1		1		1
Reduced vision 6/9 to 6/18	5564	2215	10329.3	1.22	1.12,1.34	1.10	1.00,1.21	1.17	1.07,1.28
Visually impaired < 6/18	1723	737	3087.3	1.32	1.19,1.47	1.06	0.94,1.20	1.19	1.06,1.34
Total	14394	5254	26978.6	N in model = 14328		N in model = 13494		N in model = 13940

CI: confidence intervals MMSE: mini-mental state examination

53 practices; people with MMSE score of less than 12 were excluded; analyses take into account the cluster design of the study

Model 1: adjusted age and sex

Model 2: adjusted age, sex, housing tenure, financial difficulties, smoking, depression, diabetes, reported major illness, self-reported health, falls, ADL, self-reported activity, MMSE.

Model 3: adjusted age, sex, housing tenure, financial difficulties, smoking, diabetes, reported major illness, MMSE.