Trends in prevalence of blindness and distance and near vision impairment over 30 years: an analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study
16 Dec, 2020 | 09:57h | UTCCommentary: Researchers Say We’re Watching The World Go Blind – Michigan Medicine – University of Michigan
Commentaries on Twitter
Two new studies on the causes and trends of blindness and vision impairment show the world is not meeting targets to reduce avoidable sight loss. Both studies are available online in @LancetGH.
Causes: https://t.co/j0y0poscj1
Trends: https://t.co/DPT8jKLyVx pic.twitter.com/aKxlvqvv2B— Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) (@IHME_UW) December 2, 2020
(thread – click for more)
Really thrilled to see our studies on global burden of vision loss in @LancetGH – a collaboration between @IHME_UW and the Vision Loss Expert Group. We estimate 43.3 million people blind in 2020. My three big takeaways in thread. https://t.co/gITII9JCpWhttps://t.co/o1hJiI3gGs pic.twitter.com/PU8f9FvS3e
— Jaimie Steinmetz (@DrJSteinmetz) December 2, 2020