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Patricia E. Bath, MD
Santa Monica, Calif

Arch Ophthalmol. 1990;108(10):1377-1378.

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To the Editor.

—Preventable blindness is and should be a major concern for all opthalmologists. The recent report of the Baltimore (Md) Eye Survey by Tielsch et al¹ in the February 1990 issue of the ARCHIVES should be required reading not only for all ophthalmologists, but for all family-practice physicians and other providers of primary health care because of the compelling public health implications of their findings. The authors report the finding of a prevalence rate of blindness among blacks that is double the rate among whites. In 1979, I reported identical findings based on analysis of model reporting area (MRA) data.² In addition, I found that blacks were eight times more likely to be blinded due to glaucoma than whites (Figure and Table).

Comparatively, the MRA data in Table 4¹ show a lower prevalence of blindness among blacks (ie, 1.20% in the age group 65 to . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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