The Cohort Study of Eye Health of Aging People
Aging is a major risk factor for many blind-causing eye diseases, e.g., glaucoma, age-related cataracts, and age-related macular degeneration. With the population aging, the impact of lifestyle changes (less time spent outdoors, increasingly sedentary lifestyles, and unhealthy eating habits) on the eye health of the elderly needs further research. This study focuses on establishing a cohort of elderly subjects with normal vision and ocular structure at baseline. The main goal is to study the risk factors for common eye diseases in Chinese elderly population while providing normal-controlled clinical and genomic data for other clinical studies on eye diseases.
• Be able and willing to consent to the qualification and the follow-up phases of the study;
• Be able to undergo yearly examinations for ≥5 years;
• Age is older than 60 years;
• Best-corrected visual acuity of both eyes is better than 20/32;
• Intraocular pressure (non-contact tonometer) is between 10-21 mmHg;
• Except for mild cataracts, no other structural abnormalities of the eye are found.
• have fundus photographs of adequate quality as assessed with a standardized protocol by the University of Wisconsin Fundus Photograph Reading Center.