Prevalence of visual impairment and its causes in adults aged 50 years and older: Estimates from the National Eye Surveys in Malaysia

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 19; no. 10; p. e0299768
• Main Authors: Salowi, Mohamad Aziz, Naing, Nyi Nyi, Mustafa, Norasyikin, Wan Nawang, Wan Radziah, Sharudin, Siti Nurhuda, Ngah, Nor Fariza
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 24.10.2024
• Subjects: Acuity; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Analysis; Assessments; Biology and Life Sciences; Blindness; Blindness - epidemiology; Blindness - etiology; Care and treatment; Cataract - epidemiology; Cataracts; Clusters; Community; Complications and side effects; Consent; Data collection; Diabetes; Diabetes mellitus; Diabetic retinopathy; Eye; Eye (anatomy); Female; Field study; Glaucoma; Health Surveys; Humans; Impairment; Malaysia - epidemiology; Male; Medical examination; Medicine and Health Sciences; Middle Aged; Ophthalmology; People and Places; Polls & surveys; Population; Prevalence; Prevalence studies (Epidemiology); Prevention; Retinopathy; Risk factors; Sampling methods; Social Sciences; Surveys; Teams; Training; Underserved populations; Vision Disorders - epidemiology; Vision, Low - epidemiology; Visual Acuity; Visual impairment; Malaysia; Sarawak Malaysia

Population surveys are necessary to measure a community's eye care needs. We conducted simultaneous surveys in two regions in Malaysia in 2023 to estimate the prevalence of blindness and/or visual impairment (VI), identify its main causes, and compare the results with the survey in 2014. The su...