SEATTLE — Despite a high prevalence of visual impairment among older patients, some make improvements year-over-year, according to a study.
“This is the first opportunity that we’ve ever had — the first data — to enable us to make national estimates of the incidence that is new onset vision impairment in the United States,” Joshua Ehrlich, MD, MPH, said at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology meeting. “All data to date has been cross-sectional or has been geographically circumscribed, and so not representative of the entire U.S.