BACKGROUND Nepal Pediatric Ocular Diseases Study is a three year longitudinal population based study. Here we present the baseline survey report which aims to investigate various risk factors associated with childhood ocular morbidity and blindness in three ecological regions of Nepal. METHOD This baseline survey is a population based cross sectional study. The investigation was conducted in ...

UNLABELLED Few data on the incidence of blindness in Germany are available. We analysed causes of legal blindness for the region Württemberg-Hohenzollern (population 5.5 million) in order to help fill in this gap. MATERIAL AND METHODS Population-based investigation on the incidence of legal blindness (visual acuity <1/50) based on materials from the social services. Age-dependent blindness in...

Sir, One of the prime causes of blindness in premature and preterm infants is retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) as determined in vision 2020 program.[1] As globally the number of blind children figures to 1.4 million with 75% of them from third world countries, the global initiative for the elimination of avoidable blindness targets ROP for prevention of blindness and treatment in an effort to r...

Commentary The economic burden of global blindness: a price too high! The World Health Organisation defines blindness as a best corrected visual acuity of less than 3/60.1 Using this definition it is estimated that there are currently 37 9 million blind people (1-4 million children 0-15 years of age, and 36-5 million adults 15 years of age or greater) worldwide.2 Of this figure roughly 75% of a...

PURPOSE To identify the anatomic sites and the etiology of childhood blindness and to discern treatable and preventable causes. METHODS The records of 998 patients seen in the authors' pediatric ophthalmology unit between June 1998 and May 2002 were examined retrospectively. A total of 148 patients who had visual impairment and blindness according to World Health Organization criteria were in...

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