Globally, more than 250 million people live with visual acuity loss or blindness, and people in the US fear losing vision more than memory, hearing, or speech. But it appears there are no recent empirical estimates of visual acuity loss or blindness for the US. The objective of this study featuring HIP Investigator Dr. Yao Liu was to produce estimates of visual acuity loss and blindness by age, sex, race/ethnicity, and US state.
Data from the American Community Survey (2017), National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1999-2008), and National Survey of Children’s Health (2017), as well as population-based studies (2000-2013), were included. The analysis of all available data with modern methods produced estimates substantially higher than those previously published.
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