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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 4.

Odds of Dying within 10 years of Baseline by Visual Impairment Criteria: Results of Cox Proportional Hazards Models.

Vision Variables Visual Impairment Criterion 1 HR (95% CI) Visual Impairment Criterion 2 HR (95% CI)
High Contrast Acuity 1.27 (0.98-1.65)§ 1.49 (1.05-2.13)
Low Contrast Acuity 1.29 (1.01-1.64) 1.42 (1.09-1.85)
Low Contrast/Low Luminance Acuity 1.47 (1.11-1.94) 1.83 (1.45-2.32)*
Low Contrast Acuity in Glare 1.45 (1.05-2.00) 1.53 (1.19-1.96)
Contrast Sensitivity 1.32 (1.02-1.71) 1.59 (1.24-2.05)*
Stereopsis 1.33 (1.07-1.66) 1.56 (1.23-1.98)*
D-15 Color Vision 1.32 (1.05-1.65) 1.11 (0.80-1.54)§
Standard Visual Field Integrity 1.68 (1.33-2.11)* 1.92 (1.51-2.45)*
Impact of Attentional Task on Field 1.51 (1.20-1.91)* 1.40 (1.11-1.78)

Models adjusted for all factors listed in Table 2 (age, sex, education, depression, cognitive impairment, and self-reported health conditions). HR= Hazard Ratio, CI = Confidence Interval. Significance levels:

*

p <0.001;

p<0.01;

p<0.05;

§

p>0.05.

See Table 1 for the pass/fail criteria for each vision variable.