| The Clinical Survey on the Prevalence of Eye Diseases in Elderly Patients in Sungnam-Shi Area. |
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Kwang Bum Kim, Jong Cheol Park, Beak Ran Song, Bon Sool Koo |
1Department of Ophthalmology, Inha Hospital, Inha University, Sungnam, Korea.
2Department of Ophthalmology, Sungae General Hospital, Seoul, Korea. |
| 노인 안질환에 대한 임상적 고찰 ( 성남시지역 ) |
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김광범(Kwang Bum Kim),박종칠(Jong Cheol Park),송백란(Beak Ran Song),구본술(Bon Sool Koo) |
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| Abstract |
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We retrospectively surveyed total 628 outpatients(1,256 eyes) of age of 60 or over who visited our department of ophthalmology with review of diagnosis, visiual acuity and associated systemic diseases during 3 years from 1988 to 1990 at the Inha University Hospital. The most prevalent ocular disease was cataract, which was diagnosed in 30.7% of total patients. The other disorders comprised conjunctival diseases(21.5%), retinal disease(18.8%), refractive errors(6.5%), lid and lacrimal diseases(5.7%), corneal diseases(5.1%), vitreous diseases(4.6%), glaucoma(4.0%), optic nerve diseases(0.79%) and uveal diseases(0.79%). The blindess was definded as 0.1 or worse of corrected visual acuity and 28% of examined eyes were conuted as the blindness. Proportion of blindness by causes were as follwed: cataract(56%), corneal diseases(10%), diabetic retinopathy(8%), glaucoma(6%), hypertensive retinopathy(5%) and vitreous diseases(3%). Various systemic diseases were associated with ocular disorders in 24% of total cases. Among them, the most prevalent systemic disease was hypertension, 36%, and diabetes mellitus 30% in next, with the following of respiratory diseases 13%, heart diseases 6%, neurologic diseases 5%, hepatobiliary diseases 5%. |
| Key Words:
Age of 60 or over;Blindness;Cataract;Systemic disease |
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