Number and prevalences of definite (and definite and probable) glaucoma by sex and glaucoma type in people who could be examined adequately (n = 1269)
| Age group (years) | Males | Females | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diagnostic category | Diagnostic category | ||||||||||
| POAG | PACG | Secondary glaucoma | Number | Prevalence, 95% CI | POAG | PACG | Secondary glaucoma | Number | Prevalence | Total prevalence | |
| POAG, primary open angle glaucoma; PACG, primary angle closure glaucoma; CI confidence interval. | |||||||||||
| *Overall prevalence for people aged 50 years or more, age standardised against the total Indian population as described in the 2001 census (see also table 5) (www.censusindia.net/agedata/index.html). | |||||||||||
| 50–59 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 314 | 3.5, 1.3 to 5.7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 314 | 1.9, 0.3 to 3.5 | 2.7, 1.7 to 3.7 |
| (10) | (1) | (0) | (3.5, 1.3 to 5.7) | (7) | (0) | (0) | (2.2, 0.1 to 4.3) | (2.9, 1.8 to 3.9) | |||
| 60–69 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 192 | 4.2, 1.6 to 6.7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 217 | 1.8, 0.0 to 4.7 | 2.9, 1.5 to 4.3 |
| (10) | (0) | (1) | (5.7, 2.8 to 8.7) | (4) | (0) | (0) | (1.8, 0.0 to 4.7) | (3.7, 1.7 to 5.6) | |||
| 70–79 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 84 | 7.1, 1.5 to 12.8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 102 | 3.9, 0.8 to 7.0 | 5.4, 2.8 to 8.0 |
| (6) | (1) | (0) | (8.3, 2.4 to 14.2) | (7) | (0) | (0) | (6.9, 2.5 to 11.2) | (7.5, 4.1 to 10.9) | |||
| 80+ | 0 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 4.8, 0.0 to 14.4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 8.0, 0.0 to 18.8 | 6.5, 0.0 to 14.1 |
| (0) | (1) | (0) | (4.8, 0.0 to 14.4) | (2) | (0) | (0) | (8.0, 0.0 to 18.8) | (6.5, 0.0 to 14.1) | |||
| Total | 22 | 3 | 1 | 611 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 658 | 3.4 * | ||
| (26) | (3) | (1) | (20) | (0) | (0) | ||||||