無散瞳眼底カメラによる高齢者の眼底検査に関する研究

Abstract

Many countries are experiencing an increase in the average age of the adult population. This has serious implications for the health of the people and it is important to consider the physiological changes and diseases associated with age. A majour disease related to age is hypertension, a disease connected to lifestyles, which has steadily increased. In order to check whether the circulatory organs were functioning properly.a measurement of blood pressure was usually used. In this study we substituted the funduscopy for blood pressure. Funduscopy using a non mydriasis retinal camera is easy and useful to check the function of circulatory organs. The subjects were residents of Yoshimi, Saitama prefecture, who visited Arakawa-so, and who were aged from 60 to 80 years old. Twenty-nine healthy subjects, 6 were in their 60\u27s, with the remaining 23 being in their 70\u27s do some work on their own farms. In the subjects, approximately 45% showed signs of abnormal retina. Compared with retina measured in the health examinations of aging subjects working in a factory, the residents showed signs of abnormality in greater proportion. This abnormality enabled us to infer the disorder in circulatory organs of aging workers in Yoshimi

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