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Types of refractive errors in northern Pakistan: a hospital based survey

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First Author: I.Jeeva IRELAND

Co Author(s): Z. Sirang   K. Nanji   Z. Khan   S. Kazmi           

Abstract Details

Purpose:

WHO reports that about 314 million people are visually impaired worldwide, of them 153 million are due to uncorrected refractive errors. Hence, uncorrected refractive error is one of the leading causes of blindness around the globe. The aim of this study is to assess the prevalence and patterns of different types of refractive errors among the people attending the eye clinic in Northern Pakistan.

Setting:

Ayub Teaching Hospital, Abbottabad, Pakistan.

Methods:

The hospital based retrospective audit was done on patients who presented to the Ophthalmology Outpatients Department Ayub Medical Complex Abbottabad between 1st June 2017 and 31st July  2017. The data of 662 patients was analyzed using SPSS 22.0.

Results:

Refractive errors were found in 487 (73.5%) of the total participants. The crude prevalence of myopia, hyperopia and astigmatism was found to be 33.5%, 21.9% and 18.1%, respectively. The refractive error status was found to be independent of gender (P=0.075) but it varied among different age groups (P=0.000).

Conclusions:

Myopia seems to be the most common refractive error followed by hyperopia. The results of our study can be useful for the planning of eye care services in our country so that we can achieve the goal VISION 2020 with proper care and planning.

Financial Disclosure:

None