Prevalence and causes of vision loss in sub-Saharan Africa in 2015: magnitude, temporal trends and projections

Autor: Naidoo, Kovin, Kempen, John H, Gichuhi, Stephen, Braithwaite, Tasanee, Casson, Robert J, Cicinelli, Maria Vittoria, Das, Aditi, Flaxman, Seth R, Jonas, Jost B, Keeffe, Jill Elizabeth, Leasher, Janet, Limburg, Hans, Pesudovs, Konrad, Resnikoff, Serge, Silvester, Alexander J, Tahhan, Nina, Taylor, Hugh R, Wong, Tien Y, Bourne, Rupert R A, Vision Loss Expert Group of the Global Burden of Disease Study. Collaborators (Bourne R, Ackland P, Arditi A, Barkana Y, Bozkurt B, Tasanee B, Bron A, Budenz D, Cai F, Casson R, Chakravarthy U, Choi J, Cicinelli MV, Congdon N, Dana R, Dandona R, Dandona L, Das A, Dekaris I, Monte Del Monte MD, Deva J, Dirani M, Dreer L, Ellwein L, Frazier M, Frick K, Friedman D, Furtado J, Gao H, Gazzard A, George R, Gichuhi S, Gonzalez V, Hammond B, Hartnett ME, He M, Hejtmancik J, Hirai F, Huang J, Ingram A, Javitt J, Jonas J, Joslin C, Keeffe J, Kempen J, Khairallah M, Khanna R, Kim J, Lambrou G, Lansingh VC, Lanzetta P, Leasher J, Lim J, Hans L, Mansouri K, Mathew A, Morse A, Munoz B, Musch D, Naidoo K, Nangia V, Maria P, Battaglia Parodi M, Pena FY, Pesudovs K, Peto T, Quigley H, Raju M, Ramulu P, Resnikoff S, Reza D, Robin A, Rossetti L, Saaddine J, Sandar M, Serle J, Shen T, Shetty R, Sieving P, Silva JC, Silvester A, Sitorus RS, Stambolian D, Stevens G, Taylor H, Tejedor J, Tielsch J, Topouzis F, Tsilimbaris M, Meurs JV, Varma R, Virgili G, Volmink J, Wang YX, Ning-Li Wang SW, Wiedemann P, Wong T, Wormald R, Zheng Y, Flaxman S).

Publikováno v: British Journal of Ophthalmology. 104:1658-1668

BackgroundThis study aimed to assess the prevalence and causes of vision loss in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in 2015, compared with prior years, and to estimate expected values for 2020.MethodsA systematic review and meta-analysis assessed the prevalenc

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https://doi.org/10.1136/bjophthalmol-2019-315217