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 | ||
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| 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.