PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | cataract |
| Phenotype | C0456909|blindness |
| Sentences | 49 |
| PubMedID- 24400641 | Despite the expansion of eye health services, preventable and correctable ocular conditions such as cataract remain leading causes of blindness in nepal [3-7]. |
| PubMedID- 23826526 | Results: ten point nine one percent blindness was due to cataract, 27.5% due to uncorrected refractive error, and only 61.59% met the eligible blindness criteria (uncorrected refractive error and cataract are not considered as eligible blindness). |
| PubMedID- 21966202 | Fortunately, blindness due to cataracts is reversible with surgery and most people in developed countries have access to surgery centers.1 in the us, the majority of patients use medicare to help pay for cataract surgery. |
| PubMedID- 21150604 | Summary: vision loss due to cataract, disability associated with cataract blindness, and the surgical treatment of this disease present a significant public health burden. |
| PubMedID- 23577095 | Conclusions: half of those with bilateral visual impairment or blindness because of cataract remain in need of cataract surgery in bai population. |
| PubMedID- 24791236 | The most recent estimates from who reveal that 47.8% of global blindness is due to cataract and in south asia region which includes india, 51% of blindness is due to cataract. |
| PubMedID- 24591801 | A community-based study in ethiopia showed that vad was second to cataract as a cause of blindness in the studied community (8) though a study done in schools for the blind in ethiopia ten years back put vad as the leading cause of blindness (14). |
| PubMedID- 26347452 | The nepal blindness survey of 1981 showed congenital cataract and nutritional diseases to be the major causes of childhood blindness. |
| PubMedID- 23580849 | The application of nanotechnology in medicine is undergoing rapid progress, and the recent developments in nanomedicine-based therapeutic approaches may bring significant benefits to address the leading causes of blindness associated with cataract, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy and retinal degeneration. |
| PubMedID- 22837620 | Hence, we performed a study to estimate the prevalence of blindness due to cataract, audit the visual outcomes of cataract surgery, assess cataract surgical coverage (csc) and barriers to uptake of services among individuals 50 years of age or older in plateau state, nigeria. |
| PubMedID- 22998612 | (20) preventable blindness associated with cataract is unusual at these levels of surgery[19]. |
| PubMedID- 26021828 | These rates are higher than those of high-income countries, where the proportion of all cause blindness due to cataract is less than 5% [13,14]. |
| PubMedID- 21547074 | 1.8% of blindness was attributed to cataract surgical complications. |
| PubMedID- 23571245 | [10] with rapidly increasing aging population in india (life expectancy of: 69.9 years) and with blindness due to cataract being addressed more vigorously (cataract surgery rate of 4,500 / million population in 2005), the age-related blinding causes of posterior segment will be more important in the coming years. |
| PubMedID- 24155984 | blindness due to cataract is an important long-term complication of diabetes. |
| PubMedID- 25866740 | blindness due to cataract is becoming widespread in developing countries owing to the increasing lifespan, the population getting thereby more and more aged [1]. |
| PubMedID- 22447555 | The high prevalence of blindness associated with cataract is an urgent public health issue. |
| PubMedID- 20155546 | cataract, the main cause of blindness and other visual impairment, is a main focus of this effort. |
| PubMedID- 23584647 | Introduction: because of the availability of modern health facilities and moderately easy access to health services in the last 25 years, the blindness due to cataract and trachoma is expected to decline in nepal. |
| PubMedID- 24618482 | [4] blindness due to cataract is terrific challenge for ophthalmologists on public health stance. |
| PubMedID- 25263793 | About 47% of cases of low vision and blindness are due to cataracts globally.1 together with cancer, blindness is considered one of the most feared health conditions.2 china has the largest number of visually disabled people in the world, and cataracts are the leading cause of this visual disability in china, accounting for 60% of all visual disabilities.3 most cataract visual disability is age-related. |
| PubMedID- 26451378 | Five to twenty percent of pediatric blindness is attributable to congenital cataract, which occurs in 3-4 per 10 000 births [47]. |
| PubMedID- 22655036 | Mature onset cataract, the leading cause of blindness worldwide, involves the polymerization of covalently damaged or partially unfolded crystallins into light-scattering aggregates. |
| PubMedID- 24014202 | Age-related cataract, the major cause of blindness in the elderly, is believed to result from both genetic predisposition and environmental factors [9]. |
| PubMedID- 22346128 | The important causes of blindness in subjects with diabetes includes cataract, age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma and uncorrected refractive errors.4 the national health and nutrition survey conducted in the usa reported that vi was more common in diabetics than in non-diabetics.4 the survey reported that approximately 11% of us adults with diabetes had some form of vi (7.2% correctable and 3.8% uncorrectable). |
| PubMedID- 21705085 | India accounts for approximately 20% of the global burden of blindness, with cataracts being the principal cause.1 population-based studies have reported high prevalence rates of cataract in india2–4 compared with western populations, even when the level of cataract surgery is taken into account. |
| PubMedID- 26415932 | Our results suggest that reforms in the resident education system are needed to accomplish this goal, as the chinese ophthalmology residents surveyed in the current report appear unprepared to manage cataract, the leading cause of blindness in china [35], at their current level of training. |
| PubMedID- 23696652 | Prevalence and proportions of blindness and vi due to cataract, cataract surgical coverage (csc), per cent intraocular lens (iol) implantation and visual outcomes of surgery in accordance with who criteria were ascertained. |
| PubMedID- 24862748 | Conclusion: health education and awareness are essential tools that can prevent avoidable blindness due to traumatic cataract in the paediatric population. |
| PubMedID- 22013741 | cataract, the leading cause of blindness worldwide, is associated with many risk factors including diabetes. |
| PubMedID- 22944747 | In contrast, in andhra pradesh 10 years later, the tests previously omitted were included, and updated findings included only 60.3% of blindness due to cataract and refractive error, even though the overall prevalence of blindness had increased from 1.50% to 1.84%. |
| PubMedID- 22944756 | [31] the proportion of blindness due to cataract ranged from 36% to 89% in most studies except in cameroon where it was 21%. |
| PubMedID- 23280361 | The widespread prevalence of diabetes in developing countries is expected to increase the magnitude of blindness due to cataract and the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of cataract showed the involvement of polyol pathway, advanced glycation end products and oxidative stress [36]. |
| PubMedID- 23412395 | Background: cataract, the leading cause of blindness, is associated with oxidative damage and protein modification in the lens. |
| PubMedID- 25866890 | Interestingly, diabetic retinopathy and diabetic cataract are major cause of blindness, and are associated with pathological elevations of ca2+ that leads to the overactivation of calpains [43]. |
| PubMedID- 22944752 | [26] racss is based on sound epidemiological principles that can provide information on the prevalence of blindness due to cataract, cataract surgical coverage, and visual outcomes after cataract survey and barriers for uptake of cataract surgery in the age group ≥50 years. |
| PubMedID- 21402586 | Age-related cataract is a cause of blindness on a global scale involving genetic and environmental influences. |
| PubMedID- 26302445 | Patients with reversible blindness (due to perimetric variability, cataract surgery, or glaucoma course itself; see results section) were not analyzed as blind. |
| PubMedID- 23439745 | Overall, ecce has been an extremely valuable operation for the relief of blindness due to cataract all over the world, including the developed world. |
| PubMedID- 20663565 | Conclusions: two thirds of those with bilateral visual impairment or blindness because of cataract remain in need of sight-restoring surgery. |
| PubMedID- 22043305 | Age-related cataract, the leading cause of world blindness, is another major age-related disease [29], [30], [31]. |
| PubMedID- 21929802 | cataract was the cause of blindness in 92.8% (103 subjects) and moderate visual impairment in 77.2% (274 subjects) of the individuals respectively. |
| PubMedID- 22864035 | Untreated cataract was the cause of blindness in 67.5%. |
| PubMedID- 23428743 | cataract, a leading cause of blindness, is characterized by lenticular opacities resulting from denaturation of lens proteins due to activation of calcium-dependent enzyme, calpain. |
| PubMedID- 25859627 | Achieving this level of productivity and improved quality of outcomes [4] would eliminate blindness due to cataract [5] and result in achievement of the international agency for the prevention of blindness, vision 2020 goals. |
| PubMedID- 20806076 | Although, there have been major advances in the control of hyperglycemia (diabetes) through dietary changes, hypoglycemic agents, insulin, and islet transplantation, the management of long-term complications of diabetes, such as blindness due to cataract and retinopathy, remain serious problems to be dealt with. |
| PubMedID- 24067063 | With non-cataract causes of blindness in the indian population also requiring attention, this has implications for allocation of scarce resources. |
| PubMedID- 22520268 | cataract, the leading cause of blindness worldwide, is caused by protein aggregation within the protected lens environment. |
| PubMedID- 22944739 | The existing national trachoma control program was thus converted into a national blindness control program with emphasis on cataract surgery. |
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