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Nationwide incidence of blindness in South Korea: a 12-year study from 2002 to 2013
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dc.contributor.author | 김성수 | - |
dc.contributor.author | 임형택 | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-20T11:55:33Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2018-07-20T11:55:33Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1442-6404 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | https://ir.ymlib.yonsei.ac.kr/handle/22282913/161503 | - |
dc.description.abstract | IMPORTANCE: Blindness is an important public health issue. BACKGROUND: The background of the study is to determine the incidence of blindness in South Korea. DESIGN: Nationwide population-based retrospective study. PARTICIPANTS: All individuals from South Korea (n = 47 516 098). METHODS: Patients confirmed with legal blindness based on the worse-seeing and better-seeing eyes between 1 January 2002 and 31 December 2013 were included. The Korean National Health Insurance Service (KNHIS) database was used. Using the World Health Organization definition, blindness was defined as best-corrected visual acuity in the worse-seeing and better-seeing eyes of <20/400. The mean incidence of blindness during the 12-year period was estimated. The population of South Korea was estimated using census data in 2005 and 2010. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The total number of legal blindness cases in the KNHIS database. RESULTS: We identified 195 004 and 20 492 cases of newly developed legal blindness based on the worse-seeing and better-seeing eyes, respectively, and the mean incidences of blindness were 34.2 and 3.6 cases/100 000 person-years, respectively. The prevalence of blindness based on the worse-seeing and better-seeing eyes was 425.3 and 57.7 cases/100 000 persons, respectively. The incidence of blindness based on the worse-seeing eye was higher in men than in women overall. Additionally, the incidence increased with age and showed a decreasing trend from 2002 to 2013. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: The prevalence of blindness showed an increasing trend from 2002 to 2013. The findings of our study will help in the assessment of the blindness-related socio-economic burden and in healthcare planning. | - |
dc.description.statementOfResponsibility | restriction | - |
dc.language | English | - |
dc.publisher | Wiley-Blackwell Pub. Asia | - |
dc.relation.isPartOf | CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL OPHTHALMOLOGY | - |
dc.rights | CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 KR | - |
dc.rights | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/kr/ | - |
dc.subject.MESH | Adolescent | - |
dc.subject.MESH | Adult | - |
dc.subject.MESH | Age Distribution | - |
dc.subject.MESH | Aged | - |
dc.subject.MESH | Aged, 80 and over | - |
dc.subject.MESH | Blindness/epidemiology* | - |
dc.subject.MESH | Blindness/physiopathology | - |
dc.subject.MESH | Blindness/rehabilitation Child | - |
dc.subject.MESH | Child, Preschool | - |
dc.subject.MESH | Disability Evaluation | - |
dc.subject.MESH | Female | - |
dc.subject.MESH | Follow-Up Studies | - |
dc.subject.MESH | Forecasting* | - |
dc.subject.MESH | Humans | - |
dc.subject.MESH | Incidence | - |
dc.subject.MESH | Infant | - |
dc.subject.MESH | Infant, Newborn | - |
dc.subject.MESH | Male | - |
dc.subject.MESH | Middle Aged | - |
dc.subject.MESH | Population Surveillance/methods* | - |
dc.subject.MESH | Prevalence | - |
dc.subject.MESH | Public Health* | - |
dc.subject.MESH | Registries* | - |
dc.subject.MESH | Republic of Korea/epidemiology | - |
dc.subject.MESH | Retrospective Studies | - |
dc.subject.MESH | Sex Distribution | - |
dc.subject.MESH | Socioeconomic Factors | - |
dc.subject.MESH | Visual Acuity* | - |
dc.subject.MESH | Visually Impaired Persons/statistics & numerical data* | - |
dc.subject.MESH | Young Adult | - |
dc.title | Nationwide incidence of blindness in South Korea: a 12-year study from 2002 to 2013 | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.contributor.college | College of Medicine | - |
dc.contributor.department | Dept. of Ophthalmology | - |
dc.contributor.googleauthor | Tyler Hyungtaek Rim | - |
dc.contributor.googleauthor | Dong Wook Kim | - |
dc.contributor.googleauthor | Eun Jee Chung | - |
dc.contributor.googleauthor | Sung Soo Kim | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/ceo.12962 | - |
dc.contributor.localId | A00571 | - |
dc.contributor.localId | A03419 | - |
dc.relation.journalcode | J02853 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1442-9071 | - |
dc.identifier.pmid | 28418606 | - |
dc.identifier.url | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ceo.12962 | - |
dc.subject.keyword | blindness | - |
dc.subject.keyword | epidemiology | - |
dc.subject.keyword | incidence | - |
dc.contributor.alternativeName | Kim, Sung Soo | - |
dc.contributor.alternativeName | Rim, Tyler Hyungtaek | - |
dc.contributor.affiliatedAuthor | Kim, Sung Soo | - |
dc.contributor.affiliatedAuthor | Rim, Tyler Hyungtaek | - |
dc.citation.volume | 45 | - |
dc.citation.number | 8 | - |
dc.citation.startPage | 773 | - |
dc.citation.endPage | 778 | - |
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitation | CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL OPHTHALMOLOGY, Vol.45(8) : 773-778, 2017 | - |
dc.identifier.rimsid | 61409 | - |
dc.type.rims | ART | - |
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