Global data on visual impairment in the year 2002.

By S. Resnikoff, D. Pascolini, D. Etya'alé, I. Kocur, R. Pararajasegaram, G. P. Pokharel, S. Mariotti. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2004

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Citations in the corpus

• Myopia and associated pathological complications (2005, background): “Myopic eyes are structurally different from emmetropic eyes: myopic eyes have longer axial lengths and vitreous chamber depths (Scott and Grosvenor, 1993).”
• Diabetic retinopathy: global prevalence, major risk factors, screening practices and public health challenges: a review (2016, background): “8% of the number of cases of blindness (37million)worldwide.(9) A pooled analysis of 22896 people with diabetes from 35 population-based studies in the U.”
• Critical review: vegetables and fruit in the prevention of chronic diseases (2012, background): “The main causes for loss of sight in Europe and the United States are age-related macular degeneration (AMD; 50 %), glaucoma (18 %), diabetic retinopathy (17 %), and cataract (5 %) [218].”
• Age‐related macular degeneration—emerging pathogenetic and therapeutic concepts (2006, background): “Conservatively, the WHO estimated that 14 million persons worldwide are blind or severely visually impaired because of AMD (8,9).”