Global estimates on the number of people blind or visually impaired by cataract: a meta-analysis from 2000 to 2020

Loss Expert Group of the Global Burden of Disease Study, Vision; Pesudovs, Konrad; Charles Lansingh, Van; H. Kempen, John; Tapply, Ian; G. Fernandes, Arthur; Vittoria Cicinelli, Maria; Arrigo, Alessandro; Leveziel, Nicolas; Resnikoff, Serge; R. Taylor, Hugh; Sedighi, Tabassom; Flaxman, Seth; M. Bikbov, Mukkharram; Braithwaite, Tasanee; Bron, Alain; Cheng, Ching-Yu; A. Del Monte, Monte; R. Ehrlich, Joshua; B. Ellwein, Leon; Friedman, David; M. Furtado, João; Gazzard, Gus; George, Ronnie; Elizabeth Hartnett, M.; B. Jonas, Jost; Kahloun, Rim; Khairallah, Moncef; C. Khanna, Rohit; Leasher, Janet; Little, Julie-Anne; Nangia, Vinay; Nowak, Michal; Peto, Tunde; Ramulu, Pradeep; Topouzis, Fotis; Tsilimbaris, Mitiadis; Xing Wang, Ya; Wang, Ningli; Bourne, Rupert; 2019 Blindness and Vision Impairment Collaborators, GBD; Pesudovs, Konrad; Charles Lansingh, Van; H. Kempen, John; Tapply, Ian; G. Fernandes, Arthur; Vittoria Cicinelli, Maria; Arrigo, Alessandro; Leveziel, Nicolas; Svitil Briant, Paul; Vos, Theo; Resnikoff, Serge; Flaxman, Seth; Habtegiorgis Abate, Yohannes; Abdollahi, Mohammad; Abdollahi, Mozhan; Mamo Abebe, Ayele; Abiodun, Olumide; Gyan Aboagye, Richard; Aberhe Abrha, Woldu; Abualruz, Hasan; Abubaker Ali, Hiwa; Abu-Gharbieh, Eman; Aburuz, Salahdein; Girum Girum Adal, Tadele; Molla Adane, Mesafint; Yeboah Addo, Isaac; Estiningtyas Sakilah Adnani, Qorinah; Sohail Afzal, Muhammad; Aghamiri, Shahin; Opoku Ahinkorah, Bright; Ahmad, Aqeel; Ahmad, Sajjad; Ahmadi, Ali; Ahmed, Ayman; Ahmed, Haroon; Samir Alfaar, Ahmad; Ali, Abid; Shujait Shujait Ali, Syed; Altaf, Awais; Amu, Hubert; Androudi, Sofia; Anguita, Rodrigo; Anil, Abhishek; Anvari, Saeid; Edward Anyasodor, Anayochukwu; Appiah, Francis; Arabloo, Jalal; Arafat, Mosab; Areda, Damelash; Arefnezhad, Reza; Berhe Aregawi, Brhane; Awealom Asgedom, Akeza; Ashraf, Tahira; Shamsadin Athari, Seyyed; Tilaye Tilaye Atinafu, Bantalem; Moh’d Wahbi Atout, Maha; Atreya, Alok; Ayatollahi, Haleh; Y. Azzam, Ahmed; Babamohamadi, Hassan; Bagherieh, Sara; Bahurupi, Yogesh; Amin Baig, Atif; Banik, Biswajit; Bardhan, Mainak; Basu, Saurav; Batra, Kavita; Simegnew Bayileyegn, Nebiyou; Bazvand, Fatemeh; Shunu Beyene, Addisu; S. Bhagat, Devidas; Srikanth Bhagavathula, Akshaya; Bhardwaj, Pankaj; Bhaskar, Sonu; Singh Bhatti, Jasvinder; Bikbov, Mukharram; Bineshfar, Niloufar; G. Birck, Marina; R. Bitra, Veera; Braithwaite, Tasanee; Burkart, Katrin; Bustanji, Yasser; A. Butt, Zahid; Luciano Caetano dos Santos, Florentino; Alberto Cámera, Luis; L. A. Carneiro, Vera; Cenderadewi, Muthia; K. Chandrasekar, Eeshwar; Kumar Chattu, Vijay; Chitranshi, Nitin; Chopra, Hitesh; Chu, Dinh-Toi; Coberly, Kaleb; M. Coelho, João; Cruz-Martins, Natália; Dadras, Omid; Dai, Xiaochen; Das, Subasish; Maria Dascalu, Ana; Dashti, Mohsen; Dastmardi, Maedeh; Hundessa Demessa, Berecha; Demisse, Biniyam; Dereje, Diriba; Masrie Asrat Derese, Awoke; Dervenis, Nikolaos; Gnana Chellaiyan Devanbu, Vinoth; Chi Do, Thanh; Huynh Phuong Do, Thao; Winter dos Santos Figueiredo, Francisco; Marian Dziedzic, Arkadiusz; Atan Edinur, Hisham; Efendi, Ferry; R. Ehrlich, Joshua; Ekholuenetale, Michael; Cyrus Ekundayo, Temitope; El Sayed, Iman; Elhadi, Muhammed; Hassan Emamian, Mohammad; Emamverdi, Mehdi; Etemadimanesh, Azin; Francis Fagbamigbe, Adeniyi; Fahim, Ayesha; Farrokhpour, Hossein; Fatehizadeh, Ali; Feizkhah, Alireza; Ferro Desideri, Lorenzo; Fetensa, Getahun; Fischer, Florian; Forouhari, Ali; Foschi, Matteo; Raphael Fowobaje, Kayode; Motiramji Gaidhane, Abhay; P. Gandhi, Aravind; W. W. Gebregergis, Miglas; Gebrehiwot, Mesfin; Gebremariam, Brhane; Gerema, Urge; Ghassemi, Fariba; Ghozy, Sherief; Golechha, Mahaveer; Goleij, Pouya; Niegia Garcia Goulart, Bárbara; Guan, Shi-Yang; Gudisa, Zewdie; Gupta, Sapna; Bala Gupta, Veer; Kumar Gupta, Vivek; Haj-Mirzaian, Arvin; Halimi, Aram; Hallaj, Shahin; Hamidi, Samer; Harorani, Mehdi; Hasani, Hamidreza; Zenbaba Heyi, Demisu; Quoc Hoan, Nguyen; Holla, Ramesh; Hwi Hong, Sung; Hosseinzadeh, Mehdi

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Global estimates on the number of people blind or visually impaired by cataract: a meta-analysis from 2000 to 2020

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Vision Loss Expert Group of the Global Burden of Disease Study

Konrad Pesudovs

Van Charles Lansingh

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Abstract Background To estimate global and regional trends from 2000 to 2020 of the number of persons visually impaired by cataract and their proportion of the total number of vision-impaired individuals. Methods A systematic review and meta-analysis of published population studies and gray literatu...

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