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. 2022 Oct 8;15(Suppl 1):S32–S42. doi: 10.1016/j.optom.2022.09.001

Table 1.

Number of patients with each refractive error type, mean age, refraction with gender and vision impairment statistics.

Vision Impaired Vision Impaired Vision Impaired
Age (Years) SER (D) (incl. Blindness) Age (Years) SER (D)
Refractive Error Type n (%) Mean ± SD Mean ± SD n (%)* Mean ± SD Mean ± SD
Myopes 50,297 (32.75) 41.63 ± 20.12 −2.45 ± 2.16 933 (2.39) 61.25 ± 22.53 −3.09 ± 3.54
Emmetropes 41,666 (27.13) 45.65 ± 21.69 0.02 ± 0.23 523 (1.66) 67.42 ± 21.50 0.03 ± 0.23
Hyperopes 61,635 (40.13) 54.64 ± 22.48 1.82 ± 1.44 1326 (2.91) 71.91 ± 18.22 2.07 ± 1.61
Gender
Female 88,807 (57.82) 47.88 ± 22.08 −0.14 ± 2.44 1710 (2.52) 68.46 ± 20.53 −0.03 ± 3.20
Male 64,791 (42.18) 48.01 ± 22.49 0.04 ± 2.29 1072 (2.22) 65.94 ± 21.43 −0.06 ± 3.39

Total EMR Data n = 153,598, For VI analysis, n = 116,072.