Tag: vision health

Authors: Saiko Matsumura, Cheng Ching-Yu, Seang-Mei Saw “Collectively, there are significant differences in the prevalence of myopia between urban areas and rural areas. In China, the prevalence of myopia was 38.1% in children aged 5–15 years in urban area, Guangzhou, whereas the prevalence of myopia was 5.0% in children aged 5–18 years in rural...

More than one‐third of blindness in blind schools in Ghana could have been prevented by primary care interventions and nearly half could have been treated surgically to prevent visual loss. Two in five children in blind schools in Ghana could benefit from optical intervention....

Similar to previous studies,6 the primary outcome measure was change in overall visual ability, estimated from participants’ difficulty ratings of AI goals at baseline, at 3 months, and at 1 year after the initial LVR evaluation. ...