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The population-based, cross-sectional study included data pooled from adults 40 years and older from six major population-based studies on blindness and visual impairment. In the United States in 2015 ...

The number of preschool children in the U.S. with visual impairment is projected to increase by more than 25 percent in the coming decades, with the majority of visual impairment resulting from simple ...

An additional 16.4 million people are projected to have vision problems due to uncorrected refractive errors. The study included data on adults aged 40 years and older, taken from 6 major ...

Key facts Globally, at least 2.2 billion people have a near or distance vision impairment. In at least 1 billion of these, vision impairment could have been prevented or is yet to be addressed. The ...

The Shihpai Eye Study 2006 included 460/824 (55.8%) subjects (age range 72–94 years old) of 1361 participants in the 1999 baseline survey for a follow-up eye ...

CHICAGO – The prevalence of nonrefractive visual impairment (not due to need for glasses) in the U.S. has increased significantly in recent years, which may be partly related to a higher prevalence of ...

Vision loss can result from a number of different conditions, including refractive errors and cataracts. There are 2.2 billion people around the world who live with near or distance vision impairment, ...

Orbis International, a non-governmental organization, has revealed that refractive errors, particularly myopia (nearsightedness), are a leading cause of visual impairment and blindness in children. In ...

The prevalence of nonrefractive visual impairment (not due to need for glasses) in the U.S. has increased significantly in recent years, which may be partly related to a higher prevalence of diabetes, ...