Important causes of visual impairment in the world today.

By N. Congdon, D. Friedman, T. Lietman. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2003

809 citations recorded by the source corpus.

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

Endoplasmic reticulum stress: molecular mechanism and therapeutic targets (2023, background): “DR is the leading cause of vision loss in developed countries.(183) The number of diabetes patients worldwide reached 410 million in 2015 and is estimated to reach 640 million in 2040.”
Intravitreal aflibercept (VEGF trap-eye) in wet age-related macular degeneration. (2012, neutral): “r m o s r i d h m n o t Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a leading cause of vision loss and blindness in industrialized countries.(1) The most severe vision loss occurs in the neovascular (or wet) form of AMD, involving choroidal neovascularization (CNV) and associated retinal edema.”
Automated Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy using Deep Learning (2018, background): “Of those with diabetes, approximately one-third are expected to be diagnosed with diabetic retinopathy (DR), a chronic eye disease that can progress to irreversible vision loss 8 .”