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Increased Difficulties in Managing Stairs in Visually Impaired Older Adults: A Community-Based Survey.
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Clareon Intraocular Lens Stability in Vitrectomy Patients: CLOVE Study
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Relationship Between Legal Blindness and Depression.Medical hypothesis, discovery & innovation ophthalmology journal · 2019Article
- Prevalence and risk factors for myopia in older adult east Chinese population.BMC ophthalmology · 2017Article
- The 100 most influential papers about cataract surgery: a bibliometric analysis.International journal of ophthalmology · 2017Article
- Myopia and depressive symptoms among older Chinese adults.PloS one · 2017Article
- Population-based assessment of visual impairment among ethnic Dai adults in a rural community in China.Scientific reports · 2016Article
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Abstract
purposeManaging stairs is a challenging aspect of daily activities of living for older people. We assessed whether older adults with visual impairment (VI) have greater difficulties of managing stairs in daily lives.
methodsThe study was designed as a community-based cross-sectional study based on a Chinese cohort aged 60 years and older in rural China. Visual acuity (VA) was measured in both eyes using a retro-illuminated Snellen chart with tumbling-E optotypes. VI (including blindness) was defined as presenting VA of worse than 20/60 in either eye. Having any difficulties in managing stairs was self-reported based on a question drawn from the Barthel Index. Information on participants' socioeconomic status, lifestyle-related factors, diseases histories and medication intake was collected using a questionnaire.
resultsThe Barthel Index, Activities of Daily Living questionnaire was completed by 4597 (99.7%) participants including 2218 men and 2379 women. The age of the participants ranged from 60 to 93 years with a mean of 67.6 ± 6.3 years. In age and gender adjusted models, adults with VI had a higher likelihood of having difficulties in managing stairs (odds ratio [OR] = 2.7; 95% confidence interval [CI] 2.0, 3.7) compared with those without. The association of VI with the likelihood of having difficulties in managing stairs was stronger in older adults who lived alone (OR = 3.2; 95%CI 1.8, 4.5) compared with those who lived with other family members (OR = 2.0; 95%CI 1.3, 4.3). Compared with hypertension, diabetes, obesity and cognitive dysfunction, VI had the greatest impact on people's abilities of managing stairs.
conclusionVI was associated with an increased likelihood of having difficulties in managing stairs, especially in those who lived alone. However, whether the finding could be extrapolated to other populations warrants further studies as different environmental exposures such as illumination and types of stairs may alter the association observed in this study.
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