Search for dissertations about: "quality of life in glaucoma"

Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the words quality of life in glaucoma.

  2. 1. Visual Impairment and Vision-Related Quality of Life in Glaucoma

    Author : Dorothea Peters; Oftalmologi (Malmö); []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES;

    Abstract : This thesis addresses the impact of glaucoma on the patients’ vision from both a measurement based and a functionally based perspective. The risk of visual disability is probably the most important question for a newly diagnosed glaucoma patient and maintaining vision-related quality of life (VRQOL) has become the ultimate goal of glaucoma treatment. READ MORE

  4. 2. On the necessity of screening and national registration of congenital cataracts

    Author : Gunilla Magnusson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : congenital cataract; glaucoma; intraocular surgery; posterior capsular opacification PCO ; prevalence; visual acuity VA ; visual impairment; screening; newborn examination; blindness prevention; cost-utility analysis; quality- adjusted life year QALY ;

    Abstract : Objectives: The overall aim of this thesis was to contribute to improvements in the management of congenital cataract by defining the most efficient screening procedure, examining the magnitude of the morbidity rate, optimizing the timing of surgery by relating surgical outcome to age at intervention and severity of visual deprivation and furthermore by evaluating costs versus consequences of introducing the most efficient screening procedure found, on a national basis.Methods: Paper I: 72 children born between 1992 and 1998 in the Stockholm County Council region, Västra Götaland and Halland county, Linköping-Motala, Malmö, and Lund, who had surgery for congenital cataract before the age of one year were included in a retrospective study. READ MORE

  5. 3. Diabetes in primary care : quality of life, metabolic control, drugs and socioeconomic factors

    Author : Per Wändell; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : diabetes mellitus; quality of life; socioeconomic factors; cross-sectional survey; Sweden; primary health care; disability pension; psychic symptoms; drug utilisation antidiabetic drugs; cardiovascular agents; lipid-lowering drugs;

    Abstract : Diabetes is one of the most common chronic diseases affecting the Swedish population, with a prevalence of 3-4%. Most diabetic patients receive their care in the primary health care service. READ MORE

  6. 4. Studying prevalence using capture-recapture methods : visual impairment in Portugal

    Author : Pedro Lima Ramos; António Filipe Macedo; Ines Sousa; Amândio Rocha Sousa; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Optometry; Optometri;

    Abstract : Visual impairment (VI) due to eye diseases remains a significant healthproblem worldwide and, also, in Europe. There are an estimated 15 million peoplesuffering from moderate or severe visual impairment in Western Europe. READ MORE