J Korean Ophthalmol Soc.  1993 Mar;34(3):188-197.

The Clinical Survey of the Prevalence of Ocular Disorders in Aged Patients

• Koo HM
• Rhee SW
• Park BI
• Koo BS

Abstract

In order to assess the prevalence of ocular disorders of the aged patients, retrospective survey was carried out in 5,659 patients over the age of 60, who visited outpatient clinics of three hospitals (St. Mary's Hospital, Cheonnam University Hospital and Inha University Hospital) between 1989 and 1990. An analysis of data was resulted in as follow: 1. Proportion of the aged patients to total out-patients was 15%. 2. The age distributions of patients were sixties (59%), seventies (34%), over eighty (7%). 3. In the patient 60 years old and older, 36.9% of the cases had best corrected visual acuities of 0.7 or better. 4. The most prevalent ocular disorder was senile cataract (44.0%), and others included conjunctival and scleral diseases (14.9%), retinal diseases (14.4%), refractive error (9.1%), glaucoma (4.4%), and corneal diseases (3.2%). 5. The proportion of causes of blindness indicates; senile cataract (58.8%), retinal diseases (15.4%), glaucoma (6.8%), and corneal diseases (5.0%), etc. 6. The systemic disorders associated with ocular diseases were hypertension 7.0%, diabetes 5.0%, respiratory diseases 4.2%, and heart diseases 2.0%. 7. Visual acuities better than 0.4 were obtained in 87.4% of postoperative cataract surgeries in aged patients.

Keyword

Aged patients; Blindness; Ocular disease

MeSH Terms

Age Distribution
Ambulatory Care Facilities
Blindness
Cataract
Corneal Diseases
Glaucoma
Heart Diseases
Humans
Hypertension
Middle Aged
Outpatients
Prevalence*
Refractive Errors
Retinal Diseases
Retrospective Studies
Scleral Diseases
Visual Acuity