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Association between NEI-VFQ sub-scale scores and visual impairment, adjusted for age, gender, practice and other sub-scale scores listed in the table |
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| Exposure |
OR VA<6/12 (95% CI) |
OR VA<6/18 (95% CI) |
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| General vision |
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| No problems |
1.00 |
1.00 |
| Problems |
3.64 (2.68, 4.95) |
4.77 (3.03, 7.53) |
| P-value |
<0.001 |
<0.001 |
| Near activities |
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| No problems |
1.00 |
1.00 |
| Problems |
1.62 (1.18, 2.22) |
2.32 (1.30, 4.15) |
| P-value |
0.003 |
0.005 |
| Distance activities |
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| No problems |
1.00 |
1.00 |
| Problems |
0.74 (0.54, 1.02) |
0.91 (0.54, 1.52) |
| P-value |
0.063 |
0.709 |
| Social function |
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| No problems |
1.00 |
1.00 |
| Problems |
1.84 (1.25, 2.71) |
2.52 (1.55, 4.11) |
| P-value |
0.002 |
<0.001 |
| Mental health |
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| No problems |
1.00 |
1.00 |
| Problems |
0.94 (0.67, 1.32) |
0.72 (0.42, 1.25) |
| P-value |
0.726 |
0.250 |
| Role difficulties |
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| No problems |
1.00 |
1.00 |
| Problems |
0.85 (0.59, 1.23) |
1.22 (0.69, 2.17) |
| P-value |
0.381 |
0.496 |
| Dependency |
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| No problems |
1.00 |
1.00 |
| Problems |
1.74 (1.18, 2.56) |
1.73 (1.05, 2.86) |
| P-value |
0.005 |
0.033 |
| Colour vision |
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| No problems |
1.00 |
1.00 |
| Problems |
1.59 (1.00, 2.55) |
2.25 (1.35, 3.73) |
| P-value |
0.052 |
0.002 |
| Peripheral vision |
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| No problems |
1.00 |
1.00 |
| Problems |
1.21 (0.86, 1.69) |
0.95 (0.59, 1.53) |
| P-value |
0.279 |
0.850 |
Owen et al. BMC Ophthalmology 2006 6:24 doi:10.1186/1471-2415-6-24 |
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