Association of Sex With the Global Burden of Cataract.

ABSTRACT: Importance:Eye disease burden could help guide health policy making. Differences in cataract burden by sex is a major concern of reducing avoidable blindness caused by cataract. Objective:To investigate the association of sex with the global burden of cataract by year, age, and socioeconomic status using disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs). Design, Setting, and Participants:This international, comparative burden-of-disease study extracted the global, regional, and national sex-specific DALY numbers, crude DALY rates, and age-standardized DALY rates caused by cataract by year and age from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. The DALY data were collected from January 1, 1990, through December 31, 2015, for ever 5 years. The human development index (HDI) in 2015 was extracted as an ind

SUBMITTER: Lou L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5838943 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature