Open AccessFour-year incidence and progression of visual impairment in a South Indian population with diabetes
Author(s) -
Sangeetha Srinivasan,
Rajiv Raman,
Suganeswari Ganesan,
Rupak Roy,
Viswanathan Natarajan,
Tarun Sharma
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
indian journal of ophthalmology/indian journal of ophthalmology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.542
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1998-3689
pISSN - 0301-4738
DOI - 10.4103/ijo.ijo_520_16
Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , visual impairment , odds ratio , diabetic retinopathy , confidence interval , refractive error , population , visual acuity , type 2 diabetes , logistic regression , diabetes mellitus , blindness , ophthalmology , optometry , endocrinology , environmental health , psychiatry , physics , optics
The aim of this study is to investigate the 4-year incidence and progression of visual impairment (VI) and the associated risk factors for incident VI in a South Indian population with type 2 diabetes.