British Journal of Ophthalmology

Epidemiological insights into epiretinal membranes using optical coherence tomography: the Singapore Epidemiology of Eye Diseases Study-2

Background To investigate prevalence and risk factors of epiretinal membrane (ERM), particularly those associated with ERM ...
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Estimated number of ophthalmologists worldwide (International Council of Ophthalmology update): will we meet the needs?

Background/aims To estimate 2015 global ophthalmologist data and analyse their relationship to income groups, prevalence rates of blindness and visual impairment and gross domestic product (GDP) per ...
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Coverage of cataract surgery services in Nepal: results from a nationwide Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness survey

Background/aim To assess the coverage of cataract surgery services and the outcomes of surgeries including the causes of poor ...
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Is sunlight exposure a risk factor for age-related macular degeneration? A systematic review and meta-analysis

1 School of Public Health, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, People's Republic of China 2 First Affiliated Hospital of Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shenyang, ...
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Socioeconomic status, cardiovascular health and joint associations with incident cataract: a prospective study from UK Biobank

Aims To investigate the interaction and combined effects of cardiovascular health (CVH) and socioeconomic status (SES) on ...
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Drusen volume development over time and its relevance to the course of age-related macular degeneration

3 Institute of Environmental Health, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria Correspondence to Professor Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth, Department of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Medical University of ...
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Astigmatism and its components in 12-year-old Chinese children: the Anyang Childhood Eye Study

Purpose To determine prevalence of refractive (RA), corneal (CA) and internal astigmatism (IA), including variation with gender and spherical equivalent refraction (SE), in a population of 12-year-old ...
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Macular dystrophies: clinical and imaging features, molecular genetics and therapeutic options

Macular dystrophies (MDs) consist of a heterogeneous group of disorders that are characterised by bilateral symmetrical central visual loss. Advances in genetic testing over the last decade have led ...
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Single-centre observational study of anti-adalimumab antibody development in children and young people treated for juvenile idiopathic arthritis and/or non-infectious uveitis

1 Sheffield Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK Background Adalimumab is an effective first-line biologic therapy used to treat children and young people (CYP) with juvenile ...
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Features of the choriocapillaris in myopic maculopathy identified by optical coherence tomography angiography

Correspondence to Dr Kaori Sayanagi, Department of Ophthalmology E7, Osaka University Medical School, 2-2 Yamadaoka, Suita 565-0871, Japan; sayapon{at}aol.com Aim To describe the choriocapillaris ...
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Defocus Incorporated Multiple Segments (DIMS) spectacle lenses slow myopia progression: a 2-year randomised clinical trial

Aim To determine if ‘Defocus Incorporated Multiple Segments’ (DIMS) spectacle lenses slow childhood myopia progression. Methods A 2-year double-masked randomised controlled trial was carried out in ...
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Advances in the laboratory diagnosis of non-viral microbial keratitis

Infectious keratitis remains a leading cause of corneal blindness and visual impairment worldwide, with bacterial, fungal, amoebic and viral pathogens presenting major diagnostic and therapeutic ...