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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Aging Health. 2013 Jan 20;25(2):364–378. doi: 10.1177/0898264312472538

Table 2.

Visual Function Characteristics of Assisted Living Participants

Characteristic Better Eye Worse Eye
Distance visual acuity, No. (%)
  20/40 or better 81 (61.36) 40 (29.85)
  Worse than 20/40 but better than 20/200 45 (34.09) 65 (48.51)
  20/200 or worse 6 (4.55) 29 (21.64)
Distance visual acuity, logMAR, mean (SD) 0.32 (0.30) 0.58 (0.40)
Near visual acuity, No. (%)
  20/40 or better 67 (49.63) 39 (28.89)
  Worse than 20/40 but better than 20/200 61 (45.19) 64 (47.41)
  20/200 or worse 7 (5.19) 32 (23.70)
Near visual acuity, logMAR, mean (SD) 0.38 (0.29) 0.63 (0.43)
Contrast sensitivity, No. (%)
  ≥ 1.80 * *
  ≥ 1.50 but <1.80 41 (33.88) 13 (10.74)
  ≥1.20 but <1.50 55 (45.45) 47 (38.84)
  ≥ 0.90 but <1.20 18 (14.88) 29 (23.97)
  ≥ 0.60 but <0.90 4 (3.31) 13 (10.74)
  ≥ 0.30 but <0.60 2 (1.65) 4 (3.31)
  <0.30 1 (0.83) 15 (12.40)
Contrast sensitivity, log sensitivity, mean (SD) 1.34 (0.28) 1.05 (0.47)