Global burden of paediatric vision impairment: a trend analysis from 1990 to 2017.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the trend of paediatric visual impairment and its disparities by year, sex, age and national socioeconomic levels using disability-adjusted life years (DALYs).

Methods

It is a retrospective analysis of data from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2017. Global and national DALY numbers and rates of vision impairment in three paediatric age groups of 1-4 (preschool children), 5-9 (school children) and 10-14 years (teenagers) years were obtained from the GBD 2017 database. The socioeconomic indices for 195 countries were derived from international open databases. Main outcome measures were comparison of DALYs due to paediatric vision impairment in different age groups by socioeconomic indicators in 2017 and analysis of the trend from 1990.

Results

The

SUBMITTER: Abdolalizadeh P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8302648 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature