Composite Measures of Individual and Area-Level Socio-Economic Status Are Associated with Visual Impairment in Singapore

Win Wah, Arul Earnest, Charumathi Sabanayagam, Ching-Yu Cheng, Marcus Eng Hock Ong, Tien Y Wong and Ecosse L Lamoureux

PLOS ONE, 2015, vol. 10, issue 11, 1-12

Abstract: Purpose: To investigate the independent relationship of individual- and area-level socio-economic status (SES) with the presence and severity of visual impairment (VI) in an Asian population. Methods: Cross-sectional data from 9993 Chinese, Malay and Indian adults aged 40–80 years who participated in the Singapore Epidemiology of eye Diseases (2004–2011) in Singapore. Based on the presenting visual acuity (PVA) in the better-seeing eye, VI was categorized into normal vision (logMAR≤0.30), low vision (logMAR>0.30

Date: 2015
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