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Study on ocular morbidity in eye camp patients in rural medical hospital

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Author Details : Pooja H V , H T Venkate Gowda, Jeevitha R*

Volume : 7, Issue : 2, Year : 2021

Article Page : 389-391

https://doi.org/10.18231/j.ijceo.2021.077

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Abstract

Aims: To determine the prevalence and pattern of the different types of ocular morbidities in elderly eye camp patients.
Materials and Methods : Cross sectional observational study from July 2018 to June 2019, in eye camp patients aged 40-80 years attending Ophthalmology Department with a history of ocular diseases underwent routine eye examination.
Materials and Methods Data was entered in MS Excel 2016 and analysed using SPSS 17.0 by using descriptive statistics like frequency and percentage.
Results : Of 2912 people, males were 1759 and females were 1153. Most common ocular morbidity was Cataract 1967 (67.54%) and Cataract associated with comorbidities were 391 (13.42%), followed by glaucoma 152 (5.2%), hypertensive 92 (3.1%) and diabetic 84 (2.8%) retinopathy, blepharitis 78 (2.6%), pterygium 69 (2.3%), Chronic dacrocystitis 41 (1.4%), refractive error 12 (0.4%), Age related macular degeneration ten (0.3%). Less common were phacotoxic uveitis eight (0.2%), corneal opacity five (0.1%) and Retinitis Pigmentosa three (0.1%).
Conclusions : Cataract, glaucoma were major ocular diseases seen in the study. Efforts aimed at reducing high prevalence of treatable or preventable morbidities such as cataract, glaucoma.

Keywords: Ocular morbidity, Cataract, Glaucoma, Retinopathy.

How to cite : Pooja H V, Gowda H T V, Jeevitha R, Study on ocular morbidity in eye camp patients in rural medical hospital. Indian J Clin Exp Ophthalmol 2021;7(2):389-391

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