Magnitude, temporal trends, and projections of the global prevalence of blindness and distance and near vision impairment: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Bourne, Rupert; Flaxman, Seth; Braithwaite, Tasanee; Vittoria Cicinelli, Maria; Das, Aditi; B. Jonas, Jost; Keeffe, Jill; H. Kempen, John; L Leasher, Janet; Limburg, Hans; Naidoo, Kovin; Pesudovs, Konrad; Resnikoff, Serge; Silvester, Alex; A Stevens, Gretchen; Tahhan, Nina; Yin Wong, Tien; R. Taylor, Hugh; Bourne, Rupert; Ackland, Peter; Arditi, Aries; Barkana, Yaniv; Bozkurt, Banu; Braithwaite, Tasanee; M. Bron, Alain; L. Budenz, Donald; Cai, Feng; J. Casson, Robert; Chakravarthy, Usha; Choi, Jaewan; Vittoria Cicinelli, Maria; Congdon, Nathan; Dana, Reza; Dandona, Rakhi; Dandona, Lalit; Das, Aditi; Dekaris, Iva; A. Del Monte, Monte; P Deva, Jenny; E. Dreer, Laura; B. Ellwein, Leon; Frazier, Marcela; D. Frick, Kevin; S. Friedman, David; M. Furtado, João; Gao, Hua; Gazzard, Gus; George, Ronnie; Gichuhi, Stephen; García González, Víctor; R. Hammond, Billy; Elizabeth Hartnett, M.; He, Minguang; Fielding Hejtmancik, J.; Hirai, Flávio; J. Huang, John; Ingram, April; Javitt, Jonathan; Jonas, Jost; E. Joslin, Charlotte; Keeffe, Jill; H. Kempen, John; Khairallah, Moncef; Khanna, Rohit; Kim, Judy; Ι. Lambrou, George; Charles Lansingh, Van; Lanzetta, Paolo; L Leasher, Janet; I. Lim, Jennifer; Limburg, Hans; Mansouri, Kaweh; Mathew, Anu; R. Morse, Alan; Muñoz, Beatriz; C. Musch, David; Naidoo, Kovin; Nangia, Vinay; Palaiou, M.; Battaglia Parodi, Maurízio; Yaacov Peña, Fernando; Pesudovs, Konrad; Pető, Tünde; A. Quigley, Harry; Raju, Murugesan; Ramulu, Pradeep; Resnikoff, Serge; L. Robin, Alan; Rossetti, Luca; Saaddine, Jinan; Sandar, Mya; B. Serle, Janet; T. Shen, Tueng; Shetty, Rajesh; C. Sieving, Pamela; Carlos Silva, Juan; Silvester, Alex; S. Sitorus, Rita; Stambolian, Dwight; A Stevens, Gretchen; R. Taylor, Hugh; Tejedor, Jaime; M. Tielsch, James; K. Tsilimbaris, Miltiadis; van Meurs, Jan; Varma, Rohit; Virgili, Gianni; Volmink, Jimmy; Xing Wang, Ya; Wang, Ningli; K. West, Sheila; Wiedemann, Peter; Yin Wong, Tien; Wormald, Richard; Zheng, Yingfeng

doi:10.1016/s2214-109x(17)30293-0

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Magnitude, temporal trends, and projections of the global prevalence of blindness and distance and near vision impairment: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Published in The Lancet Global Health • Aug 3, 2017

Authors:

Rupert Bourne

Seth Flaxman

Tasanee Braithwaite

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Global and regional prevalence estimates for blindness and vision impairment are important for the development of public health policies. We aimed to provide global estimates, trends, and projections of global blindness and vision impairment. METHODS: We did a systematic review and meta-...

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Visual impairment

Visual acuity

Presbyopia

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