PURPOSE The eighth annual survey was carried out by mail in February 2000 to investigate the current trends in cataract and refractive surgery in Japan. RESPONDENTS Questionnaires were sent to 930 ophthalmologist members of the Japanese Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery. Data received from 457 (49.1%) of the recipients were cross-analyzed and compared with those from the previous sur...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence and causes of visual impairment and blindness among Kibera slum dwellers. DESIGN Population based Survey. SETTING Kibera Slums, Kibera Division, Nairobi, Kenya. SUBJECTS One thousand four hundred and thirty eight randomly selected slum dwellers. RESULTS The prevalence of blindness and visual impairment was 0.6% (95% CI: 0.21 to 1.0), and 6.2% (95% C...

PURPOSE To investigate associations between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels and dry eye syndrome (DES), and to evaluate the differential effect of vitamin D on ocular diseases including age-related macular disease (AMD), diabetic retinopathy (DR), cataract, and DES. METHODS A total of 16,396 participants aged >19 years were randomly selected from the Korean National Health and Nutrition Exam...

Cordia obliqua has a long history of use in the treatment cataract and other eye-related problems Indian traditional medicine. High oxidative stress is one major underlying causes which results precipitation natural protein present lenses with aging. This research been carried out to determine anti-cataract activity by performing various antioxidant techniques such as 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydra...

PURPOSE To survey the surgical routines with regards to prophylactic strategies in a sample of Italian hospitals and compare these with European Society for Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ESCRS) guidelines. METHODS Six private and 18 public hospitals were included in this clinical-based retrospective study. The overall volume of cataract operations in the 24 centers in 2013 was 43,553. Main...

Cataract is by far the most common cause of major vision loss, accounting for approximately half of all global blindness. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), roughly 18 million people worldwide are bilaterally blind from cataract. These sobering statistics have a profound societal economic impact through the combined loss of productivity of both the blind and those who must care f...

BACKGROUND To assess the socio-demographic and health-related risk factors associated with cataract subtypes in Korea. METHODS A total of 11,591 participants (aged ≥40 years) were selected from the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey between 2008 and 2010. The Korean Ophthalmologic Society conducted detailed ophthalmologic examinations on these participants based on the Le...