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Published in final edited form as: Ophthalmology. 2010 Dec 13;118(5):805–811. doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2010.09.015

Table 2.

Age Specific Prevalence of Refractive Error by Acculturation and Years of Education

	Total Study Population N=4,509		Refractive Error in at least 1 Eye N (%) 2,875 (63.8%)		Refractive Error in Both Eyes N (%) 2,307 (51.2%)

	<60 years	60+ years	<60 years	60+ years	<60 years	60+ years

Acculturation Index
<2	1671	943	811 (48.5%)	762 (80.8%)	587 (35.1%)	637 (67.6%)
2–3	543	363	336 (61.9%)	303 (83.5%)	277 (51.0%)	252 (69.4%)
3+	720	267	447 (62.1%)	214 (80.2%)	371 (51.5%)	182 (68.2%)
P for trend			<.0001	0.9	<.0001	0.5
Years of Education
<6	780	749	381 (48.9%)	609 (81.3%)	279 (35.8%)	503 (67.2%)
6–12	1596	702	875 (54.8%)	571 (81.3%)	680 (42.6%)	484 (69.0%)
12 +	558	122	338 (60.6%)	99 (81.2%)	276 (49.5%)	84 (68.9%)
P for trend			<.0001	0.5	<.0001	0.1