{"id":6961,"date":"2020-05-08T10:30:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T14:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=4936"},"modified":"2020-05-08T10:30:48","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T14:30:48","slug":"quickstats-age-adjusted-percentage-of-adults-who-have-difficulty-seeing-even-when-wearing-glasses-by-poverty-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2020\/05\/08\/6961\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Age-Adjusted Percentage of Adults Who Have Difficulty Seeing Even When Wearing Glasses by Poverty Status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6918a4.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/figures\/mm6918a4-F.gif\" width=\"448\" height=\"331\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2018, 14.9% of adults aged 18 years or older had some difficulty seeing even when wearing glasses, and 1.6% had a lot of difficulty or could not see at all.<\/p>\n<p>The percentage of adults who had some difficulty seeing even when wearing glasses decreased as income increased, from 19.3% among those with income below the poverty threshold to 11.3% among those with income more than 400% of the poverty threshold.<\/p>\n<p>The percentage of adults who had a lot of difficulty or could not see at all also decreased as income increased, from 4.2% among those with income below the poverty threshold to 0.8% among those with income more than 400% of the poverty threshold.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey, 2018. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2018, 14.9% of adults aged 18 years or older had some difficulty seeing even when wearing glasses, and 1.6% had a lot of difficulty or could not see at all. The percentage of adults who had some difficulty seeing even when wearing glasses decreased as income increased, from 19.3% among those with income below<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53746,53752,63810],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}