Prevalence of Selected Eye Diseases Using Data Harvested from Ophthalmic Checkup Examination of a Cohort of Two Thousand Middle Eastern and North African Subjects

Table 3

Prevalence of selected diseases in four groups.

Total number = 2013	Egypt (number = 731)	Sudan (number = 652)	Yemen (number = 567)	Others (number = 63)
Glaucoma	14 (1.9%)	87 (13.3%)	23 (4.1%)	0
Ocular hypertension	12 (1.6%)	54 (8.3%)	14 (2.5%)	2 (3.2%)
Diabetic retinopathy (% total)	42 (5.7%)	23 (3.5%)	49 (8.6%)	0
Diabetic retinopathy (% diabetics)	62.7%	26.7%	87.5%	0
Amblyopia	12 (1.6%)	8 (1.2%)	38 (6.7%)	0
Cataract	10 (1.4%)	12 (1.8%)	24 (4.2%)	0