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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ophthalmology. 2012 Jun 7;119(9):1731–1736. doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2012.03.003

Table 2.

Distribution of refractive error type into score categories

Refractive error category Number per RE group Near vision score categories Distance vision score categories
No Difficulty Mild Difficulty More Difficulty No Difficulty Mild Difficulty More Difficulty
No RE 2290 36.3% 42.2% 21.4% 69.2% 24.5% 6.3%
Myopia Corrected 809 45.1% 37.0% 17.9% 53.9% 32.6% 13.5%
Uncorrected 135 34.0% 43.0% 23.0% 35.6% 41.5% 23.0%
Astigmatism Corrected 176 41.5% 35.8% 22.7% 54.6% 34.7% 10.8%
Uncorrected 50 28.0% 38.0% 34.0% 50.0% 34.0% 16.0%
Hyperopia Corrected 639 42.6% 37.7% 19.7% 52.9% 32.1% 15.0%
Uncorrected 173 29.5% 36.4% 34.1% 51.4% 32.4% 16.2%

Acronym and abbreviation key: RE (Refractive Error).