Trends in the prevalence and burden of blindness and vision loss among adolescents aged 10–24 years in the Western Pacific Region over 30 years
Yunjiao Luo, Qingzhi Wang, Yingxue Wang, Louisa Esi Mackay, Na Yan, Yuhao Wang, Blen Dereje Shiferaw, Yihan Wang, Jingjing Wang, Jie Tang, Ya Liao, Xiaojuan Wang, Wei Wang · 2024
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Luo and co-authors traced thirty years of blindness and vision loss among adolescents in the Western Pacific Region. Using Global Burden of Disease data from 1990 to 2019, they followed prevalence and years lived with disability for ages 10 to 24. They also modeled how age, period, and birth cohort each shape the risk.
Across the region, adolescent vision problems rose slowly over the three decades, even as much of the world improved, though the trend turned down after 2017. China was the clear exception, with a significant rise while most neighbors declined. Uncorrected refractive problems were the largest cause. Girls and young women carried a higher burden than males, and risk patterns shifted with later periods and later births. The authors urge the region, China in particular, to give adolescent eye health more attention.
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| CREATOR | Yunjiao Luo, Qingzhi Wang, Yingxue Wang, Louisa Esi Mackay, Na Yan, Yuhao Wang, Blen Dereje Shiferaw, Yihan Wang, Jingjing Wang, Jie Tang, Ya Liao, Xiaojuan Wang, Wei Wang |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 62 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |