Dr.Himanshu Kumar
Eye sight gets reduced with age and hence physical activity too. In old age people have decreased physical activity hence they suffer from multisystem illness. But usually eye is too much neglected and hence this vicious cycle leads to total inactivity leading to poor health and multisystem disease.
We gave questionnaire to 100 patients attending OPD of age group 60 – 70 years and enquired their physical activity and noted vision and also enquired the status of other systemic diseases that has worsen due to poor vision or get better after increase in activity following treatment of poor vision. Result was noted and analyzed. 22% patient developed IHD, 14% developed depression, 39% developed uncontrolled Blood pressure and Diabeties, 8% developed Dyslipidemia, 2% developed Colon Cancer, 15% developed obesity. 72% of the patients had taken treatment for the cause of their diminished vision and a remarkable improvement was observed by 94.4% of them in their systemic disease.
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