Climatic droplet keratopathy, exfoliation syndrome, and cataract
| Autor: | Filliard G, Serge Resnikoff, Dell'Aquila B |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
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Male Rural Population medicine.medical_specialty Urban Population Eye disease Population Cataract Exfoliation syndrome Corneal Diseases Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Droplet keratopathy Random Allocation Cyclin-dependent kinase Internal medicine Prevalence Medicine Humans In patient education Aged Aged 80 and over education.field_of_study biology business.industry Case-control study Lens Status Syndrome Middle Aged medicine.disease Sensory Systems Surgery Ophthalmology Lens Diseases Case-Control Studies biology.protein Djibouti Female business Research Article |
| Zdroj: | The British journal of ophthalmology. 75(12) |
| ISSN: | 0007-1161 |
| Popis: | During a countrywide survey we assessed the prevalence of climatic droplet keratopathy (CDK) in a randomised sample of 2446 subjects representative of the population of the Republic of Djibouti. The investigation of the relationship between CDK and two diseases considered to be related to exposure to ultra-violet light--namely, exfoliation syndrome and cataract--was planned as a case control study. In the rural area prevalence of CDK was five times higher than in the urban one (2.8% vs 0.5%) and varied according to districts. The highest rates were observed where the inhabitants' activities were related to the sea. The case control study revealed that the opacification of the lens was about three times commoner in patients with CDK than in patients without CDK (p = 0.03) and that the exfoliation syndrome was about six times commoner in patients with CDK than in controls of similar age, sex, climatic conditions, and lens status (p = 0.02). Moreover, we noticed that the sequelae of corneal perforations were about 30 times commoner in patients with CDK than in controls of similar age (p less than 0.00001). |
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