A review appropriateness of the current definition of blindness under National Programme
for Control of Blindness (NPCB), Government of India. Online search of peer-reviewed …

Methods Review of published literature. We collected and analysed articles published in the
English language literature related to the prevalence and causes of blindness in different …

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the causes of visual impairment and blindness in adult Chinese in
an urban and rural region of Beijing, China. DESIGN: Population-based prevalence survey …

Background The objective of this study was to estimate the burden of disease and injury in
Iran for the year 2003, using Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) at the national level and …

Objectives To describe the prevalence of amblyopia and associated factors in a
representative sample of 6-year-old Australian children. Methods Logarithm of minimum …

Purpose To estimate the age-, gender-, and ethnicity-specific prevalence of amblyopia in
children aged 5 to 15 years using data from the multi-country Refractive Error Study in …

Background To determine the prevalence and characteristics of diabetic retinopathy (DR)
among Iranian patients with diabetes. Methods Design: population-based cross-sectional …

Uncorrected refractive error has been identified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as
one of the priorities for Vision 2020 and a frequent cause of visual impairment. In the past …

Background: To describe the rationale and study design of a follow‐up epidemiological eye
study among Singaporean Malay adults. Design: Follow‐up prospective population‐based …

Purpose: To determine the prevalence of visual impairment (VI) in populations 65 year or
older from six European countries and describe the association with vision‐related quality of …