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

The Lancet Global Health

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2017, Pages e888-e897

  Bourne, Rupert R A ^a   Flaxman, Seth R ^b   Braithwaite, Tasanee ^a,x   Cicinelli, Maria V ^c   Das, Aditi ^d,ah   Jonas, Jost B ^e,f   Keeffe, Jill ^g   Kempen, John ^bb   Leasher, Janet ^j   Limburg, Hans ^k   Naidoo, Kovin ^l,m   Pesudovs, Konrad ⁿ   Resnikoff, Serge ^m,o   Silvester, Alex ^p   Stevens, Gretchen A ^q   Tahhan, Nina ^m,o   Wong, Tien ^aw   Taylor, Hugh R ^s   Ackland, Peter ^t   Arditi, Aries ^u   Barkana, Yaniv ^v   Bozkurt, Banu ^w   Wormald, Richard ^x   Bron, Alain ^y   Budenz, Donald ^z   Cai, Feng ^aa   Casson, Robert ^ab   Chakravarthy, Usha ^ac   Congdon, Nathan ^ac   Peto, Tunde ^ac   Choi, Jaewan ^ad   Dana, Reza ^ae   Palaiou, Maria ^ae   Dandona, Rakhi ^af   Dandona, Lalit ^ag   Shen, Tueng ^ag   Dekaris, Iva ^ai   Del Monte, Monte ^aj   Deva, Jenny ^ak   Dreer, Laura ^al   Frazier, Marcela ^al   Ellwein, Leon ^am   Hejtmancik, James ^am   Frick, Kevin ^an   Friedman, David ^an   Javitt, Jonathan ^an   Munoz, Beatriz ^an   Quigley, Harry ^an   Ramulu, Pradeep ^an   Robin, Alan ^an   Tielsch, James ^an   West, Sheila ^an   Furtado, Joao ^ao   Gao, Hua ^ap   Gazzard, Gus ^aq   George, Ronnie ^ar   Gichuhi, Stephen ^as   Gonzalez, Victor ^at   Hammond, Billy ^au   Hartnett, Mary Elizabeth ^av   He, Minguang ^aw   Hirai, Flavio ^ax   Huang, John ^ay   Ingram, April ^az   Joslin, Charlotte ^ba   Khanna, Rohit ^g   Stambolian, Dwight ^bb   Khairallah, Moncef ^bc   Kim, Judy ^bd   Lambrou, George ^be   Lansingh, Van Charles ^bf   Lanzetta, Paolo ^bg   Lim, Jennifer ^bh   Mansouri, Kaweh ^bi   Mathew, Anu ^bj   Morse, Alan ^bk   Musch, David ^aj   Nangia, Vinay ^bl   Battaglia, Maurizio ^c   Yaacov, Fernando ^bm   Raju, Murugesan ^bn   Rossetti, Luca ^bo   Saaddine, Jinan ^bp   Sandar, Mya ^bq   Serle, Janet ^br   Shetty, Rajesh ^bs   Sieving, Pamela ^bt   Silva, Juan Carlos ^bu   Sitorus, Rita S ^bv   Tejedor, Jaime ^bw   Tsilimbaris, Miltiadis ^bx   van Meurs, Jan ^by   Varma, Rohit ^bz   Virgili, Gianni ^ca   Volmink, Jimmy ^cb   Xing, Ya ^cc   Wang, Ning Li ^cd   Wiedemann, Peter ^ce   Zheng, Yingfeng ^bq   more..

^a ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d HPA Yorkshire and the Humber   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^g L V PRASAD EYE INSTITUTE   (India)

^h MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

ⁱ Myungsung Christian Medical Centre   (Ethiopia)

^j NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k Health Information Services   (Netherlands)

^l UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^m BRIEN HOLDEN VISION INSTITUTE   (Australia)

ⁿ FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^o UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^p ROYAL LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^q WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^r NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^s UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^t Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "Agostino Gemelli" IRCCS   (United Kingdom)

^u Visibility Metrics LLC   (United States)

^v ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^w SELCUK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^x MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^y DIJON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^z UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^aa Green Valley Group   (United States)

^ab UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^ac QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^ad Hangil Eye Hospital   (South Korea)

^ae HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^af GEORGE INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^ag UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^ah ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^ai Eye Clinic Svjetlost   (Croatia)

^aj UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^ak UNIVERSITI TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN   (Malaysia)

^al UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^am NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^an JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ao UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^ap HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^aq UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^ar MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (India)

^as UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^at Valley Retina Institute   (United States)

^au UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^av UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^aw UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^ax FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^ay YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^az ALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^ba UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^bb UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^bc Monastir University Hospital   (Tunisia)

^bd MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^be NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^bf University of Tennessee Health Science Center   (United States)

^bg UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^bh UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^bi Clinique de Montchoisi   (Switzerland)

^bj ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^bk Jewish Guild Healthcare   (United States)

^bl Suraj Eye Institute   (India)

^bm FUNDACIÓN VISIÓN   (Paraguay)

^bn UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^bo UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^bp NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

^bq SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^br MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^bs MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^bt NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^bu Pan American Health Organization   (Colombia)

^bv UNIVERSITY OF INDONESIA   (Indonesia)

^bw HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

^bx UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^by ROTTERDAM EYE HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^bz UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^ca UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^cb STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^cc CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^cd CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^ce UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; DISTANCE VISION; GLOBAL DISEASE BURDEN; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; NEAR VISION; POPULATION PROJECTION; PRESBYOPIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; GLOBAL HEALTH; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VISUAL DISORDER;

BLINDNESS; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 85026628989     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2214109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(17)30293-0     Document Type: Article

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