TY - JOUR T1 - BJO at a glance JF - British Journal of Ophthalmology JO - Br J Ophthalmol SP - 1573 LP - 1573 VL - 91 IS - 12 AU - Harminder S Dua AU - Arun D Singh, Editors-in-Chief Y1 - 2007/12/01 UR - http://bjo.bmj.com/content/91/12/1573.2.abstract N2 - A descriptive questionnaire based survey of 25 eye centres (from 14 countries) involving 1465 prevalent cases in 2006 was performed. Recurrent oral aphthous ulcers were reported in 94.5%, skin lesions in 69.5% and genital ulcers in 61.4%. Most of the patients had bilateral and recurrent intraocular inflammation. Panuveitis was significantly more frequent in men than women and men tended to have a worse visual outcome. Overall, 23% of the patients had visual acuity ⩽20/200 at the final visit. Kitaichi et al note that despite modern treatments, Behçet’s disease still carries a poor visual prognosis with one quarter of the patients becoming blind. The patients with poor vision were more frequently from India, Iran and Japan.See pages 1650The Beijing eye study is a population-based (40+ years), cross-sectional cohort study including 4439 Chinese subjects. In the present study, a random sample of 781 subjects with normal … ER -