A survey of visual defects on Tristan da Cunha, 1984.
This paper gives data, obtained during 1984, on the incidence of refractive error and ocular disease in the small, isolated island community of Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic. In general, despite inevitable consanguinity among the population of less than 300, ocular health is good.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001266:Atlantic Islands; D002386:Cataract / Q000453:epidemiology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002825:Chorioretinitis / Q000453:epidemiology; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009798:Ocular Hypertension / Q000453:epidemiology; D011625:Pterygium / Q000453:epidemiology; D012030:Refractive Errors / Q000453:epidemiology; D012174:Retinitis Pigmentosa / Q000453:epidemiology