Cause | No with condition main/contributory cause | Binocular visual impairment (n = 1426) | Binocular visual impairment, excluding refractive error (n = 976) | Everyone aged 75 years and older (n = 13 900) | |||
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% | 95% CI | % | 95% CI | % | 95% CI | ||
Refractive error = people with pinhole corrected vision in right or left eye of 6/18 or better; no cause was established in 316 people; total is more than 100% as 16% of people had more than one cause of visual loss. | |||||||
AMD, age related macular degeneration. | |||||||
Refractive error | 450 | 31.6 | 28.3 to 34.8 | − | − | 3.2 | 2.6 to 3.8 |
AMD | 516 | 36.2 | 32.9 to 39.5 | 52.9 | 49.2 to 56.5 | 3.7 | 3.2 to 4.2 |
Cataract | 350 | 24.5 | 21.8 to 27.4 | 35.9 | 31.7 to 40.1 | 2.5 | 2.0 to 3.0 |
Glaucoma | 113 | 7.9 | 6.2 to 9.6 | 11.6 | 9.1 to 14.0 | 0.8 | 0.6 to 1.0 |
Diabetic eye disease | 33 | 2.3 | 1.5 to 3.1 | 3.4 | 2.2 to 4.6 | 0.2 | 0.15 to 0.32 |
Vascular occlusions | 9 | 0.6 | 0.1 to 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.2 to 1.6 | 0.06 | 0.01 to 0.11 |
Myopic degeneration | 41 | 2.9 | 1.9 to 3.8 | 4.2 | 2.8 to 5.6 | 0.3 | 0.2 to 0.4 |
Other | 67 | 4.7 | 3.7 to 5.7 | 6.9 | 5.5 to 8.2 | 0.5 | 0.4 to 0.6 |