dc.contributor.author | Krumpaszky, HG | |
dc.contributor.author | Haas, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Klauss, V | |
dc.contributor.author | Selbmann, HK | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-06-18T12:39:44Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-06-18T12:39:44Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1997-03 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Ophthalmologe. 1997 Mar;94(3):234-6. | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hinari-gw.who.int/whalecomwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/whalecom0/pubmed/9181842 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/35654 | |
dc.description.abstract | Blindness causes human suffering and high social costs. Preventive measures are necessary. Virtually all blind people are registered with the social services. Data from these institutions may help in (long-term) planning for blindness prevention.
MATERIAL AND METHODS:
The present investigation analysed data from the social services of the region Württemberg-Hohenzollern. The files contained information on ocular status, year of birth, district, and sex of newly blind subjects of the year 1994.
RESULTS:
Two thirds (66.8%) of newly blind subjects are women. About half (47.8%) of all subjects are over 80 years of age. The most frequent causes of blindness are: macular degeneration, 33.7%; diabetic retinopathy, 17.3%; glaucoma, 13.8%; and high myopia, 6.6%.
CONCLUSIONS:
Blindness is increasingly a problem of high age. Diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma are still major causes of blindness. For these diseases blindness prevention is conceivable. Thus co-ordinated blindness prevention activities should focus on diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | University of Nairobi | en |
dc.title | New blindness incidents in Württemberg-Hohenzollern | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
local.publisher | College of Health Sciences,University of Nairobi | en |