Table 2

Hospital admission in visually impaired people aged 75 years and above




Model 1
 Model 2
 Model 3




Binocular presenting vision with usual glasses.
 Number of people with data on hospital admission
 Admissions
 Person-years
 Rate ratio
 95% CI
 Rate ratio
 95% CI
 Rate ratio
 95% CI
Good vision
> 6/9
 7107
 2302
 13561.9
 1
1
1
Reduced vision
6/9 to 6/18
 5564
 2215
 10329.3
 1.22
 1.12,1.34
 1.10
 1.00,1.21
 1.17
 1.07,1.28
Visually impaired
< 6/18
 1723
 737
 3087.3
 1.32
 1.19,1.47
 1.06
 0.94,1.20
 1.19
 1.06,1.34
Total
 14394
 5254
 26978.6
 N in model = 14328
N in model = 13494
N in model = 13940

CI: confidence intervals MMSE: mini-mental state examination

53 practices; people with MMSE score of less than 12 were excluded; analyses take into account the cluster design of the study

Model 1: adjusted age and sex

Model 2: adjusted age, sex, housing tenure, financial difficulties, smoking, depression, diabetes, reported major illness, self-reported health, falls, ADL, self-reported activity, MMSE.

Model 3: adjusted age, sex, housing tenure, financial difficulties, smoking, diabetes, reported major illness, MMSE.

Evans et al. BMC Ophthalmology 2008 8:16   doi:10.1186/1471-2415-8-16