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NR. 3(II)/2009
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Najczęstsze
przyczyny utraty widzenia u mieszkańców Europy
The Most Common Causes of Blindness in Europe
Agnieszka Płonecka, Dariusz Kęcik
Katedra i Klinika Okulistyki I Wydziału Lekarskiego
Warszawskiego Uniwersytetu Medycznego
Kierownik: dr hab. n. med. prof. nadzw. Dariusz Kęcik |
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| Summary: |
About 161 millions people
worldwide are visually impaired, 37 millions of them are
blind. Most people with visual impairment are older, and
females are more at risk at every age, in every part of
the world. The number of pepole blinded by infectious
diseases has been grately reduced, but age related
impairment is increasing. Cataract remains the leading
cause of blindness globaly, but AMD is the most common
in the most developed countries. In different parts of
Europe there is a variation of predominant causes of
blindness and visual impairment. As the population is
getting old, and the global number of cataract
extraction with intra-ocular lens implantation increases,
AMD becomes the most common cause of blindness in
developed countries. |
| Key words: |
blindness, visual
impairment, low vision, cataract, AMD. |
| Słowa kluczowe: |
ślepota, upośledzenie
widzenia, słabowzroczność, zaćma, AMD. |
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