S Resnikoff, D Pascolini, D Etya'ale, I Kocur, … - Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2004 - SciELO Public Health Paper from: Programme for the Prevention of Blindness and Deafness,World Health
Organization, 20 Avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. 1 Coordinator.
Correspondence should be sent to this author (email: resnikoffs@who.int). 2 ... Cited by 715 - Related articles - View as HTML - BL Direct - All 18 versions
GVS Murthy, SK Gupta, D Bachani, R Jose, N … - British Journal of Ophthalmology, 2005 - bjo.bmj.com Results: The response rate was 89.3%. Presenting vision <6/60, in the better
eye, was observed in 8.5% (95% CI: 8.1 to 8.9). Age, sex, residence, literacy,
and working status were associated with blindness. The highest risk was ... Cited by 36 - Related articles - All 9 versions
A Fotouhi, H Hashemi, K Mohammad, KH … - British Journal of Ophthalmology, 2004 - bjo.bmj.com Results: Of those sampled, 4565 (70.3%) people participated in the study. The
age and sex standardised prevalences of visual impairment on the basis of best
corrected and presenting visual acuity were 1.39% (95% confidence interval ... Cited by 31 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 10 versions
- ►iovs.org PK Nirmalan, R Krishnadas, R Ramakrishnan, … - Investigative ophthalmology & visual science, 2003 - ARVO METHODS. A cross-sectional study of 5150 persons aged 40 years and more who were
selected as part of a representative sample from three southern districts of the
state of Tamil Nadu in southern India. All lenses were graded and ... Cited by 29 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
PK Nirmalan, AL Robin, J Katz, JM Tielsch, … - British Journal of Ophthalmology, 2004 - bjo.bmj.com Results: Definite cataracts were found in 2449 (47.5%) of 5150 subjects and the
prevalence of cataract increased with age. The age adjusted prevalence of
cataract was significantly lower in males (p = 0.0002). Demographic risk ... Cited by 28 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 12 versions
- ►iovs.org MZ Jadoon, B Dineen, RRA Bourne, SP Shah, … - Investigative ophthalmology & visual science, 2006 - ARVO RESULTS. A nationally representative sample of 16,507 adults (95.5% of those
enumerated) was examined. The age- and gender-standardized prevalence of
blindness was 2.7% (95% confidence interval [CI], 2.4%–2.9%). It has been ... Cited by 28 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
H Hashemi, A Fotouhi, K Mohammad - BMC ophthalmology, 2003 - biomedcentral.com Visual impairment has a profound impact on society. The majority of visually
impaired people live in developing countries, and since most disorders leading
to visual impairment are preventable or curable, their control is a ... Cited by 23 - Related articles - Cached - All 9 versions
PK Nirmalan, J Katz, JM Tielsch, AL Robin, … - Ophthalmology, 2004 - Elsevier We elicited a history of ocular trauma in either eye from 229 (4.5%) persons,
including 21 (0.4%) persons with bilateral ocular trauma. Blunt injuries (n =
124; 54.9%) were the major cause for trauma reported in this population. ... Cited by 22 - Related articles - All 7 versions
J Ramke, A Palagyi, T Naduvilath, R du Toit, … - British Journal of Ophthalmology, 2007 - bjo.bmj.com Results: Of 1470 people enumerated, 1414 (96.2%) were examined. The age, gender
and domicile-adjusted prevalence of functional blindness (presenting vision
worse than 6/60 in the better eye) was 7.4% (95% CI 6.1 to 8.8), and for ... Cited by 16 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
- ►bmj.com PK Nirmalan, A Padmavathi, RD Thulasiraj - British Medical Journal, 2003 - bjo.bmj.com Results: Females were less likely to be operated on for cataract (adjusted OR
0.71, 95% CI: 0.57 to 0.87) although the cataract blindness burden was higher
for females (p<0.001). Literacy of the subject was a major predictor for ... Cited by 15 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 10 versions
