Proceedings of: Workshop on Improving Building Design for Persons with Low Vision

Macular Disease

More than half – the ones that have some shade of yellow – are due to a macular disease. That’s a disease of your central vision, which is your acuity. Around 10 percent have glaucoma coming in seeking services. Diabetic retinopathy, which represents somewhere in the neighborhood of around 10-12 percent of the retinal vascular diseases is included in here. And stroke is about 2 percent. So by far, most of the people who are seeking services have some type of macular disease. The dry form of macular degeneration is most common, followed by the wet form – inherited forms.