By CLICK Staff
Eye health awareness is the goal of all eyecare professionals and a new and interactive, database is now available to help all ECPs explain vision problems to their patients, local business and community. In their discussions with patients, and on their websites and social media pages, it can be useful to be able to point to the most current data points.
PreventBlindnessAmerica.org/VisionProblems is a one-of-a-kind compendium of information detailing – across the country, and at the state level – the number of Americans who have refractive error such as myopia and hyperopia as well as such serious conditions as AMD, cataract, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma. The site also tracks the number of Americans suffering vision impairment and blindness.
Impactful graphics and data provide a portrait for doctors, researchers and caregivers. A unique
Advanced Search feature lets users search and cross-reference diseases, gender, age groups and geographic areas.
There is also disturbing but informative detail about the rise of certain vision problems. Among these:
- 2,069,403 people age 50 and older have late AMD (age-related macular degeneration), a 25 percent increase.
- 24,409,978 million people age 40 and older have cataracts, a 19 percent increase.
- 2,719,379 million people age 40 and older have open-angle glaucoma, a 22 percent increase.
- 7,685,237 million people ages 40 and older have diabetic retinopathy, an 89 percent increase.
Funding for the 2012 Fifth Edition of Vision Problems in the U.S., was provided by the National Eye Institute and the American Health Assistance Foundation. Research described in this report was conducted by dozens of scientists from all over the world. Prevalence estimates for Vision Problems in the U.S. were created under a grant to Johns Hopkins University.
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