Research Article

Vision Improvement with Refractive Correction Does Not Completely Exclude Major Eye Diseases: Analyses of Visually Impaired South Korean Population in the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2009–2011

Table 2

Improvement of visual acuity after correction in participants with visually impaired eye(s).

Best-corrected visual acuityN%Weighted %

<20/60 (group 1)71323.520.5
≥20/60 and <20/25 (group 2)67222.218.2
≥20/25 (group 3)164654.359.9
Total3031100.0100.0

The data are based on the eye with worse presenting visual acuity. N: number.