Cataract, visual impairment and long-term mortality in a rural cohort in India: the Andhra Pradesh Eye Disease Study.

Cataract, visual impairment and long-term mortality in a rural cohort in India: the Andhra Pradesh Eye Disease Study.

BACKGROUND: A large-scale prevalence survey of blindness and visual impairment (The Andhra Pradesh Eye Diseases Study [APEDS1]) was conducted between 1996-2000 on 10,293 individuals of all ages in three rural and one urban clusters in Andhra Pradesh, Southern India. More than a decade later (June 20...

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Main Authors: Rohit C Khanna, Gudlavalleti V S Murthy, Pyda Giridhar, Sannapaneni Krishnaiah, Hira B Pant, Ghanshyam Palamaner Subash Shantha, Subhabrata Chakrabarti, Clare Gilbert, Gullapalli N Rao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3837009?pdf=render

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