Causes of blindness and vision impairment in 2020 and trends over 30 years, and prevalence of avoidable blindness in relation to VISION 2020: the Right to Sight: an analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study

Steinmetz et al. (Tue,) studied this question.

www.synapsesocial.com/papers/69ca95f898eb56b061639914 — DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/s2214-109x(20)30489-7

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