Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a leading cause of potentially avoidable childhood blindness worldwide. With improvement in neonatal care, more preterm infants are surviving with a resultant increase in the number of ROP cases. In low-middle income countries, the disease epidemiology is characterized by the occurrence of ROP at higher birthweight in premature babies with greater severity at...

World Health Organization has been reported glaucoma, cataract, diabetic retinopathy, agerelated macular degeneration, and trachoma as major causes for visual impairment. Among them, cataract remains the major avoidable blindness. The risk for cataract gradually increases in elder adults. More than 82% of people above the age of 50 years are under the risk for visual impairment [1]. Nutrition i...

1)Methods section did not have enough detailed information about the recruitment of patients and the examinations Response: Thanks for the reviewer’s kind suggestion.According to his/her advices, the manuscript has been modified,page 2, Methods section 2) Is the conclusion really reflecting the actual conclusion of the study? Response: Thanks for the reviewer’s suggestion.The manuscript has bee...

INTRODUCTION Trachoma is a leading cause of avoidable blindness and endemic conjunctivitis in 57 countries. It infects approximately 84 million people globally, and continues to threaten over 10% of the world's population with the risk of blindness. METHODS This is a cross sectional descriptive study assessing patients presenting with acute conjunctivitis. A full history was taken from patien...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To analyse international variations of trends in "avoidable" mortality (1980-1997). DESIGN A multilevel model was used to study trends in avoidable and "non-avoidable" mortality and trends by cause of death. SETTING Fifteen countries of the European Union, the Czech Republic, and Hungary. PARTICIPANTS 19 avoidable causes of death among men and women aged 0-64 years. Mortal...

THE INCREASING INCIDENCE OF BLINDNESS DUE TO RETINOPATHY OF PREMATURITY Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a major cause of potentially avoidable blindness in children in the middle-income countries of Latin America and Eastern Europe, and is becoming a public health problem in Asia. Indeed, the earlier estimate that there were 50 000–60 000 children worldwide who were blind from ROP is a mark...

According to the World Health Organization, surgically removable cataract remains the leading cause of blindness worldwide. In sub-Saharan Africa, cataract surgical rate targets should ideally be set based on cataract incidence (the number of new cataracts developed each year). Unfortunately, the longitudinal studies necessary to measure incidence have not yet been feasible in these areas. Our ...

PURPOSE An important cause of avoidable childhood blindness is retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) in countries with high human development index and also in some emerging economies countries. To date, no research have been conducted on analyzing data of ROP prevalence in Babol, and this is the first research performed on ROP in this area. METHODS All VLBW babies who referred to Babol ophthalmol...