Importance Understanding the importance of eye health to the US population across ethnic
and racial groups helps guide strategies to preserve vision in Americans and inform policy …

Purpose To review the existing knowledge on vision health disparities in major adult vision
health outcomes (age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma …

Black Americans are twice as likely to be blind as their white counterparts. Although
blindness is preventable or curable in half of the patients studied, we have found that black …

Background: Little is known about the level of general public knowledge in Canada
regarding the risk factors, prevention, and treatment of major blinding eye diseases …

PURPOSE: To review major findings of population-based studies in ophthalmology, to
summarize key questions, and to highlight future directions for this study design. DESIGN …

A recent report from Prevent Blindness America and the National Eye Institute (NEI) draws
attention to what may hitherto have been a large blind-spot for improving the quality of …

Objectives. We sought to establish national data on the prevalence of visual impairment,
blindness, and selected eye conditions (cataract, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, and …

Importance The number of individuals with visual impairment (VI) and blindness is
increasing in the United States and around the globe as a result of shifting demographics …

Abstract In April 2004, The Eye Disease Prevalence Research Group published a series of
articles that included age-specific estimates for the prevalence of low vision and blindness in …

purpose. To assess the relationship between reduced vision and low self-rating of global
health, after taking into account many other related factors. methods. The Blue Mountains …