OBJECTIVE: To examine the association between @entity726 and @entity1957 ( @entity1957 ) involvement among older drivers, including the @entity227 that may underlie any association found. DESIGN: A retrospective, population-based study. @entity1 : A sample of 2000 licensed drivers aged >= 70 years who reside in north central Alabama. METHODS: At-fault @entity1957 involvement over the 5 years before enrollment was obtained from state records. Three aspects of visual function were measured: habitual binocular distance visual acuity, binocular contrast sensitivity (CS), and the binocular driving visual field constructed from combining the monocular visual fields of each eye. Poisson regression was used to calculate crude and adjusted rate ratios (RRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). MAIN OUTCOMES MEASURES: At-fault @entity1957 involvement over the 5 years before enrollment. RESULTS: Drivers with @entity726 (n  = 206) had a 1.65 times higher @entity1957 rate (95% CI, 1.20-2.28; P  = 0.002) compared with those without @entity726 after adjusting for age, and mental status. Among those with @entity726 , drivers with severe @entity227 had higher @entity1957 rates (RR, 2.11; 95% CI, 1.09-4.09; P  = 0.027), whereas no association was found among those with @entity227 and CS. When the visual field was subdivided into 6 regions (upper, lower, left, and right visual fields; horizontal and vertical meridians), we found that @entity227 was associated with higher @entity1957 rates, and an @entity227 showed the highest RR (3.16; P  = 0.001) compared with other regions. However, no association was found in deficits in  the right side or along the horizontal or vertical meridian. CONCLUSIONS: A population-based study suggests that older drivers with @entity726 are more likely to have a history of at-fault @entity1957 involvement than those without @entity726 . Impairment in the driving visual field in drivers with @entity726 seems to have an independent association with at-fault @entity1957 involvement, whereas visual acuity and @entity8 do not.

Association between XXXX and At-fault Motor Vehicle Collision Involvement among Older Drivers: A Population-based Study.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['PARTICIPANTS'] @entity227 :: ('MESH:D014786', 'Disease') :: ['impaired left visual field', 'role of visual field impairment', 'impairment in the left, upper, or lower visual field', 'impaired visual acuity', 'visual field loss'] @entity8 :: ('MESH:D007674', 'Disease') :: ['CS impairments'] @entity726 :: ('MESH:D005901', 'Disease') :: ['glaucoma'] @entity1957 :: ('MESH:D019957', 'Disease') :: ['MVC', 'motor vehicle collision']
@entity726 :: (MESH:D005901,Disease) :: ['Glaucoma']
