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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ophthalmic Epidemiol. 2020 Jul 14;28(1):63–69. doi: 10.1080/09286586.2020.1791908

Table 3.

Crude prevalence of visual impairment for the better/worse seeing-eyes and all eyes* and by age group

Visual impairment Better-seeing eye, N (%) All eyes, N (%)
Normal/Mild: better than 20/70 563/586 (96.00) 1077/1171 (92.00)
Among age 19-49 years 412/421 (97.86) 794/841 (94.44)
Among age ≥50 years 150/164 (91.46) 281/328 (85.67)
Moderate: equal to or worse than 20/70 and equal to or better than 20/200 12/586 (2.10) 32/1171 (2.70)
Among age 19-49 years 4/421 (0.95) 15/841 (1.55)
Among age ≥50 years 8/164 (4.88) 19/328 (5.79)
Severe: worse than 20/200 and equal to or better than 20/400 0 0
Among age 19-49 years 0 0
Among age ≥50 years 0 0
Blind: worse than 20/400 to no light perception 11/586 (1.90) 62/1171 (5.30)
Among age 19-49 years 5/421 (1.19) 34/841 (4.04)
Among age ≥50 years 6/164 (3.66) 28/328 (8.54)
*

Visual acuity was available for 1171 eyes of 586 patients of whom 585 patients aged≥18 years