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| Title | Socioeconomic association with Visual loss in uveitis: Korean Cohort Study from 2002 to 2013 |
| Accept poster if oral is not possible ? | Yes |
| Purpose | To investigate socioeconomic and clinical risk factors for blindness in uveitis patients |
| Methods | From a national sample cohort (n = 1,025,340), 14,408 patients with new-onset uveitis were selected. Legal blindness was defined as best-corrected visual acuity in the worse-eyeing eye of <20/400. Risk factors for legal blindness after uveitis occurrence were investigated using multivariate Cox proportional hazard regression. |
| Results | The overall incidence of legal blindness in uveitis patients was 2.09 in 1000 person-years (95% CI, 1.74-2.50). Risk factors for blindness were over 51 years old (HR 4.17, 95% CI, 1.83-9.47), lower one-third household income (HR 1.62, 95% CI, 1.16-2.27), and having Behcet’s disease (HR 3.50, 95% CI, 1.54-7.94). |
| Conclusion | Socioeconomic factors, as well as clinical factors, affects risk for blindness in uveitis patients, which will help in the assessment of the blindness-related socioeconomic burden and in health care planning in uveitis patients. |
| Conflict of interest | No |
Author 1
| Last name | YU |
| Initials of first name(s) | HG |
| Department | Seoul National University Hospital, Ophthalmology |
| City | Seoul |
| Country | Korea, Republic of |
Author 2
| Last name | Oh |
| Initials of first name(s) | BL |
| Department | Seoul National University Hospital, Ophthalmology |
| City | Seoul |
| Country | Korea, Republic of |