Association between Refractive Error and Decreasing Visus in Pregnant Women [PDF]
, 2018 Background: Refractive error is a problem with focusing light accurately onto the retina due to the shape of the eye. The most common types of refractive error are near-sightedness, far-sightedness, astigmatism, and presbyopia.
Adespin, D. . (Dea) +4 more
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Journal of Clinical Ophthalmology and Research, 2021 Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate the epidemiology, clinical profile, and pattern of refractive error in newly diagnosed cases in children visiting a tertiary care eye center in southern India.
Vimal Krishna Rajput +2 more
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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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Characterization of Visual Symptomatology Associated with Refractive, Accommodative, and Binocular Anomalies [PDF]
, 2015 Purpose. To characterize the symptomatology of refractive, accommodative, and nonstrabismic binocular dysfunctions and to assess the association between dysfunctions and symptoms. Methods. 175 randomised university students were examined.
Cacho-Martínez, Pilar +3 more
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Prevalence and risk factors for myopia among school children in Aba, Nigeria
African Vision and Eye Health, 2017 Aim: To study the prevalence of myopia among school children in Aba, Nigeria. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in public and private (primary and secondary) schools.
Uchenna C. Atowa +2 more
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Prevalence and Causes of Vision Loss in High-Income Countries and in Eastern and Central Europe in 2015: Magnitude, Temporal Trends, and Projections [PDF]
, 2018 Background: Within a surveillance of the prevalence and causes of vision impairment in high-income regions and Central/Eastern Europe, we update figures through 2015 and forecast expected values in 2020.
Bourne, Rupert R. A. +21 more
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What is the global burden of visual impairment?
BMC Medicine, 2006 Background A recent estimate by the World Health Organization (WHO) suggests that 161 million persons worldwide have visual impairment, including 37 million blind (best-corrected visual acuity less than 3/60 in the better eye) and 124 million with visual
Dandona Rakhi, Dandona Lalit
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BMJ Open, 2011 Aim To assess the barriers to the uptake of refraction services in the age group of 15–49 years in rural Andhra Pradesh, India.Methods A population-based cross-sectional study was conducted using cluster random sampling to enumerate 3300 individuals from
Jill E Keeffe +3 more
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The prevalence and causes of visual impairment among children in Kenya – the Kenya eye study
BMC Ophthalmology, 2020 Background Visual impairment is the partial or complete loss of vision in which the presenting visual acuity lie between 6/18-no perceptions of light. In Kenya, little attention has been directed towards children vision and causes of visual impairment ...
Shadrack Muma, Stephen Obonyo
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Refractive error study in young subjects: results from a rural area in Paraguay [PDF]
, 2017 AIM: To evaluate the distribution of refractive error in young subjects in a rural area of Paraguay in the context of an international cooperation campaign for the prevention of blindness.
Estrella Lumeras, Miguel Ángel +4 more
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