title: The prevalence of selected ocular diseases and conditions.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: School of Optometry, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Robinson
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Acorn
authors.forename: C C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Millar
authors.forename: W M
authors.initials: WM
authors.lastname: Lyle
mesh_terms: 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