title: Epidemiological aspects, development and management of prevention in ophthalmology in relation to different ages.
abstract: In the ophthalmological field, it is not always easy to adopt a primary prevention. Much more useful would be a secondary prevention program towards the affections at birth or those later developed that, if diagnosed and treated early, grant a normal visual development. Differentiated prevention can be carried out, according to various ages: at the tender age congenital glaucoma and cataract, strabism, ametropia, anisometropia (possible cause of amblyopia) have to be considered; in the adult-senile age must be prevented damages due to hypertension, diabetes, thrombosis, as well as cataract, glaucoma, uveitis, kerato-conjunctivitis and retinal detachment.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007558:Italy / Q000453:epidemiology; D008403:Mass Screening; D008875:Middle Aged; D009885:Ophthalmology; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis