The prevalence of selected ocular diseases and conditions.
It is useful for a clinician to know how common or rare a given ocular disease or condition is. Knowledge of a condition's prevalence provides a rough indication of how often to expect to encounter it in a clinical setting. Furthermore, knowledge of a condition's prevalence can assist in planning the health service requirements necessary to treat it. The acquisition of prevalence data from the literature, however, can be difficult and time-consuming because of the wide range of journals that have published relevant information. This article is a complication of some of the available data from the literature regarding the prevalence of many ocular diseases and conditions. It also includes a few systemic diseases with ocular involvement.
Robinson
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School of Optometry, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Acorn
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Millar
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Lyle
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D017677:Age Distribution; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D011159:Population Surveillance; D015995:Prevalence; D011320:Primary Health Care; D017678:Sex Distribution; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology