Six-Year Incidence of Blindness and Visual Impairment in Kenya: The Nakuru Eye Disease Cohort Study | Zendy

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Six-Year Incidence of Blindness and Visual Impairment in Kenya: The Nakuru Eye Disease Cohort Study

Author(s) -

Andrew Bastawrous,

Wanjiku Mathenge,

Kevin Wing,

Hillary Rono,

Michael Gichangi,

Helen A. Weiss,

David Macleod,

Allen Foster,

Matthew J. Burton,

Hannah Kuper

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

investigative ophthalmology and visual science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.935

H-Index - 218

eISSN - 1552-5783

pISSN - 0146-0404

DOI - 10.1167/iovs.16-19835

Subject(s) - medicine , cumulative incidence , incidence (geometry) , visual impairment , visual acuity , population , confidence interval , cohort , cohort study , optometry , pediatrics , demography , ophthalmology , environmental health , physics , psychiatry , sociology , optics

To describe the cumulative 6-year incidence of visual impairment (VI) and blindness in an adult Kenyan population. The Nakuru Posterior Segment Eye Disease Study is a population-based sample of 4414 participants aged ≥50 years, enrolled in 2007-2008. Of these, 2170 (50%) were reexamined in 2013-2014.

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