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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jul 13.
Published in final edited form as: Asia Pac J Public Health. 2012 Jan 13;27(2):NP194–NP202. doi: 10.1177/1010539511433049

Table 3. Adjusted Odds Ratios (ORs) and Confidence Intervals (CI) for types of vision impairments and selected health outcomes among cohort members*.

Health outcomes Refractive errors Uncorrectable vision impairment

Odds Ratio 95% CI Odds Ratio 95% CI
Poor self-assessed health 1.23 1.32-1.55 2.03 1.83-2.25
Poor psychological health 1.13 1.04-1.22 1.63 1.46-1.81
Overall injuries in 12 months 1.00 0.96-1.05 1.42 1.34-1.51
Falls in the last 12 months 1.08 1.00-1.18 1.41 1.27-1.59
*

The reference group was all persons who have neither type of vision impairment; each OR is adjusted for age, sex, income, lifecourse urbanization, poor hearing, and metabolic disorders.