African American nursing home residents more likely to lose vision due to cataract than white residents
Case Management Weekly, July 15, 2004
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Fifty-four percent of African American nursing home residents had low vision because of cataract, compared to 37% of white residents according to a study in the July issue of Archives of Ophthalmology. Researchers examined the vision of 1,307 nursing homes residents in Maryland and Delaware. Researchers attribute the higher rate of vision loss due to cataract in African Americans to earlier research showing that the African American population is less likely to visit an ophthalmologist, and also has cataract surgery at a lower rate than whites.
Source: Journal of the American Medical Association, Archives of Ophthalmology
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