Table 6

Causes of incident visual impairment and blindness

Cataract or uncorrected aphakia
No (%)
Cornea or other
No (%)
Better eye
Incident blind13 (86.7)2 (13.3)
Incident visually impaired28 (80.0)7 (20.0)
Worse eye
Incident blind21 (80.8)5 (19.2)
Incident visually impaired18 (43.9)23 (56.1)