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KMID : 1159320140160030409
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Korean Journal of Vision Science
2014 Volume.16 No. 3 p.409 ~ p.417
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A Study on the Macular Degeneration Prevalence according to Social Indicator and Predictive Value
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Ye Ki-Hun
Lee Wan-Seok
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Abstract
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Purpose: We tried to inform the public of the factors that can cause macular degeneration through the prediction of changes in the prevalence of macular degeneration and comparison of social indicator.
Methods: We have done a comparative analysis with the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Report from 2008 to 2012 published in 2012. All the people surveyed were 18007, and we used by SPSS (Ver12.0) a statistical process.
Results: The prevalence of macular degeneration by age group got increased according to their age increases and was 1.3% in 40~49 ages, 4.5% in 50~59 ages, 10.1% in 60~69 ages, and 16.3% in over 70 ages(p=0.00). The male showed the greatest gap in the 50~59 ages and 60~69 ages groups by 5.0%, and female showed the greatest gap in the 60~69 ages and over 70 ages groups by 7.7% in the last 5 years. When comparing dong eup regions, it found that dong was 4.2%(n=171) and eup was 6.3%(n=63)(p=0.00). When comparing educational level, elementary schcool group was 9.8%(n=113), middle school group was 6.0%(n=31), high school group 3.0%(n=51), and college & university group was 1.8%(n=18) in the 2012.
Conclusion: We found a big difference of gender in the prevalence of macular degeneration over 60~69 ages. Also, we will need to have active management on the low education group and the people who live in the farming and fishing village with the lack of basic knowledge about ocular disease and health education.
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KEYWORD
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Eye health welfare, Macular degeneration prevalence, Predictive value
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