title: Incidence of loss of vision in the healthy eye in amblyopia.
abstract: In Finland during the 20-year period 1958-78 35 patients with amblyopia lost the vision of the healthy eye. In more than 50% the cause was traumatic. The incidence of the loss of the healthy eye was 1.75 +/- 0.30 per thousand. During the same period in Finland the overall blindness rate of children was 0.11 per thousand and of adults aged 15-64 years 0.66 per thousand. For the amblyopic patient the risk of becoming blind is markedly higher than for the general population.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000550:Amblyopia / Q000150:complications* / Q000453:epidemiology; D001766:Blindness / Q000150:complications; D002648:Child; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000150:complications; D005131:Eye Injuries / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D005387:Finland; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012306:Risk; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology*