A Foster, S Resnikoff - Eye, 2005 - nature.com Recent data suggest that there are 37 million blind people and 124 million with
low vision, excluding those with uncorrected refractive errors. The main causes
of global blindness are cataract, glaucoma, corneal scarring (from a ... Cited by 50 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
L Dandona, R Dandona - BMC Med, 2006 - biomedcentral.com Address: Health Studies Area, Centre for Human Development, Administrative Staff
College of India, Hyderabad, India Email: Lalit Dandona* - dandona@asci.org.in;
Rakhi Dandona - rakhi@asci.org.in * Corresponding author Cited by 44 - Related articles - View as HTML - All 11 versions
L Pizzarello, A Abiose, T Ffytche, R Duerksen, … - Archives of Ophthalmology, 2004 - Am Med Assoc An estimated 45 million people around the world are blind. 1 Most of them have
lost their sight to diseases that are treatable or preventable. Eighty percent
of them live in the lesser-developed world in countries where chronic ... Cited by 42 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
KD Frick, A Foster, M Bah, H Faal - Archives of Ophthalmology, 2005 - Am Med Assoc Results In 1996, 1658 fewer individuals were blind than would have been without
GECP. The present value of costs was US $1.28 million (1995 dollars). Although
the net benefit between the blindness surveys was negative, the net ... Cited by 17 - Related articles - All 6 versions
B Dineen, A Foster, H Faal - Ophthalmic Epidemiology, 2006 - informahealthcare.com Purpose: To determine whether a sample of the 50-year-old and above population
would provide comparable information to a total population-based survey.
Methods: In 1996, a national eye survey of the total population in The ... Cited by 14 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
GJ Johnson - Eye, 2004 - nature.com Trachoma infection and its blinding consequences could be eventually eliminated
by environmental measures and changes in behaviour. While the threat of
increased incidence of blindness from cataract due to ozone depletion and ... Cited by 14 - Related articles - All 3 versions
- ►bmj.com P Courtright, A Hoeshcmann, N Metcalfe, M … - British Medical Journal, 2003 - bjo.bmj.com Results: Among 1630 enumerated adults 89% were examined. The age adjusted
prevalence of blindness in the adult population was 5.4% and more common in
women than men. In each age group the prevalence of blindness was lower in ... Cited by 11 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
Y Berhane, A Worku, A Bejiga - Federal Ministry of Health, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2006 - trachoma.org SUMMARY ........................................................................
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SM Mbulaiteye, BC Reeves, F Mulwanyi, JAG … - British Journal of Ophthalmology, 2003 - bjo.bmj.com Results: 2124 people were studied at both survey rounds (60.9% of those screened
at R1); 48% were male. Participants in R1 were older (34.7 versus 31.5 years at
R2, p<0.001). Visual loss in R2 occurred in 56 (2.8%) of 1997, yielding a ... Cited by 3 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 11 versions
- ►cancer.gov [PDF] SM Mbulaiteye, BC Reeves, A Karabalinde, A … - Neuro-Ophthalmology, 2002 - informahealthcare.com Abstract background Few population-based eye surveys have been con- ducted in
sub-Saharan Africa, limiting the quality of epidemiological information on
visual loss from Africa. In the present paper, we describe the prevalence ... Cited by 3 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
