Visual Impairment in the South Indian State of Andhra Pradesh: Andhra Pradesh - Rapid Assessment of Visual Impairment (AP-RAVI) Project

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 8; no. 7; p. e70120
• Main Authors: Marmamula, Srinivas, Narsaiah, Saggam, Shekhar, Konegari, Khanna, Rohit C., Rao, Gullapalli N.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 23.07.2013; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Acuity; Adult; Age; Aged; Analysis; Assessments; Biology; Blindness; Blindness - epidemiology; Cataract - epidemiology; Cataracts; Consultation; Cross-Sectional Studies; Demographics; Education; Eye; Eye examinations; Eye surgery; Eyewear; Female; Health screening; Health Services; Health Services Needs and Demand; Humans; Impairment; India - epidemiology; Initiatives; Male; Medical research; Medicine; Middle Aged; People with disabilities; Physicians; Population studies; Prevalence; Public health; Refractive Errors - epidemiology; Rural areas; Rural Population - statistics & numerical data; Rural populations; Standard deviation; Statistical analysis; Surgery; Surveys; Technicians; Trends; Tumbling; Urban areas; Vision Disorders - epidemiology; Visual acuity; Visual impairment; India; Andhra Pradesh India

To assess the prevalence and causes of visual impairment in urban and rural population aged ≥ 40 years in the South India state of Andhra Pradesh. A population based cross-sectional study was conducted in which 7800 subjects were sampled from two rural and an urban locations. Visual Acuity (VA) was...