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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ophthalmic Epidemiol. 2010 Aug;17(4):242–250. doi: 10.3109/09286586.2010.498660

Table 3.

Vision Characteristics and Percentage of Participants Failing Each Test for each Visual Impairment Criterion by 10-year Mortality Status.

Alive Died
Vision Variables Mean (SD) Criterion 1 % Fail Criterion 2 % Fail Mean (SD) Criterion 1 % Fail Criterion 2 % Fail
High Contrast Acuity (logMAR) 0.07 (0.18) 6.2 1.7 0.25 (0.29) 26.4 9.9
Low Contrast Acuity (logMAR) 0.30 (0.21) 19.9 5.4 0.53 (0.31) 53.7 25.9
Low Contrast/Low Luminance Acuity (logMAR) 0.61 (0.21) 42.8 11.6 0.88 (0.34) 77.8 46.5
Low Contrast Acuity in Glare (logMAR) 0.72 (0.29) 56.8 19.7 1.07 (0.47) 85.1 58.2
Contrast sensitivity (log units) 1.63 (0.27) 27.9 6.0 1.32 (0.43) 64.9 31.2
Stereopsis (plates passed) 2.43 (0.93) 35.3 9.3 1.67 (1.40) 58.7 32.7
D-15 Color Vision (Color confusion Score) 16.1 (42.2) 15.3 4.4 40.5 (71.6) 35.5 11.7
Standard Visual Field (% errors) 3.4 (8.7) 19.1 7.3 9.7 (14.7) 54.3 33.4
Impact of Attentional Task on Field (% errors) 21.5 (22.6) 34.9 10.6 37.5 (26.6) 64.2 27.4

Alive vs. Died: All statistically significant (p<0.0001). See Table 1 for the pass/fail criteria for each individual vision variable.