The Kariapatti Pediatric Eye Evaluation Project: baseline ophthalmic data of children aged 15 years or younger in Southern India

Nirmalan, Praveen K; Vijayalakshmi, P; Sheeladevi, Sethu; Kothari, Mihir; Sundaresan, Kannan; Rahmathullah, Lakshmi

doi:10.1016/s0002-9394(03)00421-5

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“…Twenty studies reported data on prevalence [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34] and four studies reported incidence. [35][36][37][38] The included studies represented five geographical regions including Europe and Central Asia (n = 8), South Asia (n = 3), East Asia and Pacific (n = 8), Sub-Saharan Africa (n = 3), and North America (n = 2).…”

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Global prevalence of childhood cataract: a systematic review

Sheeladevi

Lawrenson

Fielder

et al. 2016

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Childhood cataract is an avoidable cause of visual disability worldwide and is a priority for VISION 2020: The Right to Sight. There is a paucity of information about the burden of cataract in children and the aim of this review is to assess the global prevalence of childhood cataract. The methodology for the review followed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. We performed a literature search for studies reporting estimates of prevalence or incidence of cataract among children (agedo18 years) at any global location using the Cochrane Library, Medline and Embase up to January 2015. No restrictions were imposed based on language or year of publication. Study quality was assessed using a critical appraisal tool designed for systematic reviews of prevalence. Twenty prevalence and four incidence studies of childhood cataract from five different geographical regions were included. The overall prevalence of childhood cataract and congenital cataract was in the range from 0.32 to 22.9/10000 children (median = 1.03) and 0.63 to 9.74/10000 (median = 1.71), respectively. The incidence ranged from 1.8 to 3.6/10000 per year. The prevalence of childhood cataract in low-income economies was found to be 0.42 to 2.05 compared with 0.63 to 13.6/10000 in high-income economies. There was no difference in the prevalence based on laterality or gender. This review highlights substantial gaps in the epidemiological knowledge of childhood cataract worldwide, particularly from low and lower middle-income economies. More studies are needed using standard definitions and case ascertainment methods with large enough sample sizes.

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Global prevalence of childhood cataract: a systematic review

Sheeladevi

Lawrenson

Fielder

et al. 2016

Eye

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“…The need to sensitise the community to the need for corrective measures for the future of these children has been precisely identified. The role of focus group discussions as a tool to bring about these changes in knowledge and behaviour has also been amply demonstrated [15,16].…”

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Study of Disorders of Visual Acuity among Adolescent School Children in Pune

Datta

Bhardwaj²,

Patrikar

et al. 2009

Medical Journal Armed Forces India

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“…An estimated 200,000 children in India are blind. [2][3][4][5] The prevalence of childhood blindness in India is estimated to be five times that of developed nations. 3,4 Investigators from southern India have reported the prevalence of blindness to be 6.5/10,000 children.…”

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“…3,4 Investigators from southern India have reported the prevalence of blindness to be 6.5/10,000 children. 2,5 Previous studies have reported that 16.3% to 37% of the blindness in children in India is preventable or avoidable. 3,6 Using the concept of blind person-years, it has previously been reported in India that pediatric blindness results in a total of 11.2 million blind person-years compared with 22.5 million blind person-years for agerelated cataracts and 5.5 million blind person-years for glaucoma.…”

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“…Recently, investigators have looked at the burden of refractive errors in school-age children, 7,8 and the conductors of a population-based study are attempting to evaluate different service delivery models for eye care for children in South India. 2 Efforts are ongoing to make rubella vaccination mandatory. Intraocular lenses and spectacles are now locally available at a much lower cost than those imported into the country.…”

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