Trends in prevalence of blindness and distance and near vision impairment over 30 years: an analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study

Bourne, Rupert; D Steinmetz, Jaimie; Flaxman, Seth; Svitil Briant, Paul; R. Taylor, Hugh; Resnikoff, Serge; J. Casson, Robert; Abdoli, Amir; Abu‐Gharbieh, Eman; Afshin, Ashkan; Ahmadieh, Hamid; Akalu, Yonas; Aderaw Alamneh, Alehegn; Alemayehu, Wondu; Samir Alfaar, Ahmed; Alipour, Vahid; Woldu Anbesu, Etsay; Androudi, Sofia; Arabloo, Jalal; Arditi, Aries; Asaad, Malke; Bagli, Eleni; Amin Baig, Atif; Bärnighausen, Till; Battaglia Parodi, Maurízio; Srikanth Bhagavathula, Akshaya; Bhardwaj, Nikha; Bhardwaj, Pankaj; Bhattacharyya, Krittika; Bijani, Ali; M. Bikbov, Mukharram; Bottone, Michele; Braithwaite, Tasanee; M. Bron, Alain; A Butt, Zahid; Cheng, Ching‐Yu; Chu, Dinh‐Toi; Vittoria Cicinelli, Maria; Coelho, João; Dagnew, Baye; Dai, Xiaochen; Dana, Reza; Dandona, Lalit; Dandona, Rakhi; A. Del Monte, Monte; P Deva, Jenny; Díaz, Daniel; Djalalinia, Shirin; E. Dreer, Laura; R. Ehrlich, Joshua; B. Ellwein, Leon; Hassan Emamian, Mohammad; Gustavo Fernandes, Arthur; Fischer, Florian; S. Friedman, David; M. Furtado, João; Gaidhane, Abhay; Gaidhane, Shilpa; Gazzard, Gus; Gebremichael, Berhe; George, Ronnie; Ghashghaee, Ahmad; Golechha, Mahaveer; Hamidi, Samer; R. Hammond, Billy; Elizabeth Hartnett, M.; Kusuma Hartono, Risky; I Hay, Simon; Heidari, Golnaz; Chak Ho, Hung; Linh Hoang, Chi; Househ, Mowafa; Emmanuel Ibitoye, Segun; Ilić, Irena; Ilić, Milena; Ingram, April; Sina Naghibi Irvani, Seyed; Prakash Jha, Ravi; Kahloun, Rim; Kandel, Himal; Semachew Kasa, Ayele; H. Kempen, John; Keramati, Maryam; Khairallah, Moncef; Ahmad Khan, Ejaz; C Khanna, Rohit; Nazli Khatib, Mahalaqua; E. Kim, Judy; Jin Kim, Yun; Kısa, Sezer; Kısa, Adnan; Koyanagi, Ai; Kurmi, Om; Charles Lansingh, Van; L Leasher, Janet; Leveziel, Nicolas; Limburg, Hans; Majdán, Marek; Manafi, Navid; Mansouri, Kaweh; McAlinden, Colm; Mohammadi, Seyed-Farzad; Mohammadian-Hafshejani, Abdollah; Mohammadpourhodki, Reza; H. Mokdad, Ali; Moosavi, Delaram; R. Morse, Alan; Naderi, Mehdi; Naidoo, Kovin; Nangia, Vinay; Tat Nguyen, Cuong; Lan Thi Nguyen, Huong; Ogundimu, Kolawole; T Olagunju, Andrew; M Ostroff, Samuel; Panda‐Jonas, Songhomitra; Pesudovs, Konrad; Pető, Tünde; Quazi Syed, Zahiruddin; Hifz Ur Rahman, Mohammad; Y. Ramulu, Pradeep; Rawaf, Salman; Laith Rawaf, David; Reinig, Nickolas; L. Robin, Alan; Rossetti, Luca; Safi, Sare; Sahebkar, Amirhossein; M Samy, Abdallah; Saxena, Deepak; B. Serle, Janet; Ali Shaikh, Masood; T. Shen, Tueng; Shibuya, Kenji; Il Shin, Jae; Carlos Silva, Juan; Silvester, Alexander; A. Singh, Jasvinder; Singhal, Deepika; S. Sitorus, Rita; Skiadaresi, Eirini; Skirbekk, Vegard; Soheili, Amin; A. R. C. Sousa, Raúl; Elizabeth Spurlock, Emma; Stambolian, Dwight; Wogayehu Taddele, Biruk; Girma Tadesse, Eyayou; Tahhan, Nina; Ismail Tareque, Md.; Topouzis, Fotis; Xuan Tran, Bach; S. Travillian, Ravensara; K. Tsilimbaris, Miltiadis; Varma, Rohit; Virgili, Gianni; Xing Wang, Ya; Wang, Ningli; K. West, Sheila; Yin Wong, Tien; Zaidi, Zoubida; Alemayehu Zewdie, Kaleab; B. Jonas, Jost; Vos, Theo

doi:10.1016/s2214-109x(20)30425-3

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Trends in prevalence of blindness and distance and near vision impairment over 30 years: an analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study

Published in The Lancet Global Health • Dec 1, 2020

Authors:

Rupert Bourne

Jaimie D Steinmetz

Seth Flaxman

Abstract

BACKGROUND: To contribute to the WHO initiative, VISION 2020: The Right to Sight, an assessment of global vision impairment in 2020 and temporal change is needed. We aimed to extensively update estimates of global vision loss burden, presenting estimates for 2020, temporal change over three decades ...

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Visual impairment

Visual acuity

Medicine

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