Prevalence and causes of vision loss in high-income countries and in Eastern and Central Europe in 2015: magnitude, temporal trends and projections

Rupert R A Bourne; Jost B Jonas; Alain M Bron; Maria Vittoria Cicinelli; Aditi Das; Seth R Flaxman; David S Friedman; Jill E Keeffe; John H Kempen; Janet Leasher; Hans Limburg; Kovin Naidoo; Konrad Pesudovs; Tunde Peto; Jinan Saadine; Alexander J Silvester; Nina Tahhan; Hugh R Taylor; Rohit Varma; Tien Y Wong; Serge Resnikoff

doi:10.1136/bjophthalmol-2017-311258

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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

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Rupert R A Bourne Vision & Eye Research Unit, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Jost B Jonas Department of Ophthalmology, Universitätsmedizin, Mannheim, Germany Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Alain M Bron INRA, UMR1324 Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l’Alimentation, Dijon, France CNRS, UMR6265 Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l’Alimentation, Dijon, France Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l’Alimentation, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Dijon, France Ophthalmology Department, Dijon University Hospital, Dijon, France PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Maria Vittoria Cicinelli San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Aditi Das Health Education Yorkshire and the Humber, Leeds, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Seth R Flaxman Department of Mathematics and Data Science Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
David S Friedman Dana Center for Preventive Ophthalmology, Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Jill E Keeffe LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India PubMed articles Google scholar articles
John H Kempen Department of Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Discovery Eye Center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Myungsung Christian Medical Center and Medical School, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Janet Leasher Nova Southeastern University, Davie, Florida, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Hans Limburg Health Information Services, Grootebroek, The Netherlands PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Kovin Naidoo African Vision Research Institute, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Brien Holden Vision Institute, Durban, South Africa PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Konrad Pesudovs NHMRC Centre for Clinical Eye Research, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Tunde Peto School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Jinan Saadine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Alexander J Silvester St Pauls Eye Unit, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Nina Tahhan Brien Holden Vision Institute, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Hugh R Taylor Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Rohit Varma Department of Ophthalmology, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, California, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Tien Y Wong Singapore Eye Research Institute, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, National University of Singapore, Singapore PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Serge Resnikoff Brien Holden Vision Institute, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articles Google scholar articles
on behalf of the Vision Loss Expert Group of the Global Burden of Disease Study
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Correspondence to Professor Rupert R A Bourne, Vision and Eye Research Unit, School of Medicine, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge CB1 1PT, UK; rb{at}rupertbourne.co.uk

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Bourne RRA, Jonas JB, Bron AM on behalf of the Vision Loss Expert Group of the Global Burden of Disease Study, et al

Prevalence and causes of vision loss in high-income countries and in Eastern and Central Europe in 2015: magnitude, temporal trends and projections

British Journal of Ophthalmology 2018;102:575-585.

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Received August 30, 2017
Revised February 12, 2018
Accepted February 24, 2018
First published March 15, 2018.

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June 21, 2019

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