Visual acuity measures do not reliably detect childhood refractive error--an epidemiological study. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 PURPOSE: To investigate the utility of uncorrected visual acuity measures in screening for refractive error in white school children aged 6-7-years and 12-13-years.
Lisa O'Donoghue +4 more
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The uncorrected refractive error challenge
Community Eye Health Journal, 2016 Refractive error affects people of all ages, socio-economic status and ethnic groups. The most recent statistics estimate that, worldwide, 32.4 million people are blind and 191 million people have vision impairment.
Kovin Naidoo +2 more
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Risk Factors for Uncorrected Refractive Error [PDF]
Journal of Current Ophthalmology, 2022 Purpose: To determine the prevalence of visually significant uncorrected refractive error (URE) in Rafsanjan and investigate the related factors. URE is the leading cause of visual impairment (VI) which causes the second-highest number of years lived with disability. The URE is a preventable health problem.
Soleimani, Mohammadreza +7 more
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Global disease burden of uncorrected refractive error among adolescents from 1990 to 2019 [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2021 Background To estimate the global disease burden of uncorrected refractive error (URE) among adolescents and assess the contributions of various risk factors to disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) due to URE. Methods Global, regional and country-level
Zhenlan Yang +6 more
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Global uncorrected refractive error and presbyopia: the size of the problem. [PDF]
Community eye healthUncorrected refractive error is often ignored in the realm of global health priorities, yet its substantial impact on the economic and personal wellbeing of individuals and societies worldwide is undeniable.
Andrew, Bastawrous +2 more
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Prevalence and association of uncorrected refractive error among Chinese adolescents: a cross-sectional study [PDF]
BMC Public HealthBackground Uncorrected refractive error (URE) is one of the main causes of visual impairments. URE may reduce interaction and learning in the classroom, leading to social isolation, irreversible amblyopia, lack of external knowledge, and restrictions on ...
Yue Zhou +8 more
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Global cost of correcting vision impairment from uncorrected refractive error [PDF]
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2012 OBJECTIVE: To estimate the global cost of establishing and operating the educational and refractive care facilities required to provide care to all individuals who currently have vision impairment resulting from uncorrected refractive error (URE ...
TR Fricke +6 more
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Perceived barriers to eye care use among secondary school students with pinhole-improvable reduced visual acuity in two schools in Kampala, Uganda: a cross-sectional study [PDF]
Annals of MedicineIntroduction Uncorrected refractive error (URE) is a primary cause of visual impairment (VI). Although URE causes VI and increases the risk of amblyopia in school-going children, no studies have examined barriers to uptake of refractive eye-care services
Nicholas Musisi Kagumba +5 more
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Treatment of Uncorrected Refractive Error Improves Vision-Specific Quality of Life [PDF]
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2006 OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the benefit of eyeglasses and magnifiers in elderly patients with uncorrected refractive errors. DESIGN: A single‐center, randomized, prospective, controlled trial (September 2001 to August 2003).
Anne L. Coleman, Emmett Keeler
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Delivering refractive error services: primary eye care centres and outreach
Community Eye Health Journal, 2007 Addressing refractive errors, the second major cause of preventable blindness, is now a priority for eye care programmes.Although a simple pair of spectacles will correct refractive error, there exists a high prevalence of uncorrected refractive error ...
Kovin Naidoo, Dhivya Ravilla
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