A study by Nisha R. Acharya, M.D., M.S., of the University of California, San Francisco, and colleagues examined the incidence and prevalence of uveitis (eye inflammation conditions responsible for a significant proportion of legal blindness in the United States) in a Hawaiian population. The population-based study conducted from January 2006 through December 2007 included all patients (n=217,061) enrolled in the Kaiser Permanente Hawaii health plan. Of the patients, 224 cases of uveitis were confirmed. The overall uveitis rate was 24...
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