Causes of blindness and vision impairment in 2020 and trends over 30 years, and prevalence of avoidable blindness in relation to VISION 2020: the Right to Sight: an analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study

Jaimie D Steinmetz , Rupert Bourne , Paul Svitil Briant , Jaimie D Steinmetz , Rupert Bourne , Paul Svitil Briant , Seth Flaxman , Hugh R B Taylor , Jost B. Jonas , Amir Abdoli , Woldu Aberhe , Ahmed Abualhasan , Eman Girum Abu-Gharbieh , Tadele Girum Girum Adal , Ashkan Afshin , Hamid Ahmadieh , Wondu Alemayehu , Sayyed Amirpooya Alemzadeh , Ahmad Samir Alfaar , Vahid Alipour , Sofia Androudi , Jalal Arabloo , Aries Berhe Arditi , Brhane Berhe , Alessandro Arrigo , Charlie Ashbaugh , Elham Ashrafi , Desta Debalkie Atnafu , Eleni Bagli , Atif Amin Baig , Till Bärnighausen , Maurízio Battaglia Parodi , Mahya Beheshti , Akshaya Srikanth Bhagavathula , Nikha Bhardwaj , Pankaj Bhardwaj , Krittika Bhattacharyya , Ali Bijani , Mukharram M. Bikbov , Michele Bottone , Tasanee M Braithwaite , Alain M. Bron , Sharath Burugina Nagaraja , Zahid A Butt , Florentino Luciano Caetano dos Santos , Vera Lúcia Alves Carneiro , Robert J. Casson , Ching-Yu Jasmine Cheng , Jee-Young Jasmine Choi , Dinh‐Toi Chu , Maria Vittoria Cicinelli , João M G Coelho , Nathan Congdon , Rosa A A Couto , Elizabeth A. Cromwell , Saad M A Dahlawi , Xiaochen Dai , Reza Dana , Lalit Dandona , Rakhi Dandona , Monte A. Del Monte , Meseret Derbew Molla , Nikolaos Dervenis , Abebaw Alemayehu Desta , Jenny P Deva , Daniel Díaz , Shirin E Djalalinia , Joshua R. Ehrlich , Rajesh Elayedath , Hala Rashad Elhabashy , Leon B. Ellwein , Mohammad Hassan Emamian , Sharareh Eskandarieh , Farshad Farzadfar , Arthur Gustavo Fernandes , Florian Fischer , David S. Friedman , João M. Furtado , Shilpa Gaidhane , Gus Gazzard , Berhe Gebremichael , Ronnie George , Ahmad Ghashghaee , Syed Amir Gilani , Mahaveer Golechha , Samer Randall Hamidi , Billy R. Hammond , M. Elizabeth Hartnett , Risky Kusuma Hartono , Abdiwahab Hashi , Simon I Hay , Khezar Hayat , Golnaz Heidari , Hung Chak Ho , Ramesh Holla , Mowafa J Househ , John J. Huang , Segun Emmanuel Ibitoye , Irena Ilić , Milena Ilić , April Ingram , Seyed Sina Naghibi Irvani , Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam
2020 The Lancet Global Health 2,687 citations

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Visual impairmentMedicinePopulationVisual acuityMacular degenerationBlindnessOptometryOphthalmologyEnvironmental healthPsychiatry

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2020
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9
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2
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e144-e160
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Jaimie D Steinmetz, Rupert Bourne, Paul Svitil Briant et al. (2020). Causes of blindness and vision impairment in 2020 and trends over 30 years, and prevalence of avoidable blindness in relation to VISION 2020: the Right to Sight: an analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study. The Lancet Global Health , 9 (2) , e144-e160. https://doi.org/10.1016/s2214-109x(20)30489-7

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