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Mya Sandar
Researcher at National University of Singapore
Publications - 8
Citations - 3874
Mya Sandar is an academic researcher from National University of Singapore. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Cataract surgery. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 8 publications receiving 2725 citations. Previous affiliations of Mya Sandar include Singapore National Eye Center.
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Global Causes of Blindness and Distance Vision Impairment 1990-2020: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Seth Flaxman,Rupert R A Bourne,Serge Resnikoff,Serge Resnikoff,Peter Ackland,Tasanee Braithwaite,Maria V Cicinelli,Aditi Das,Jost B. Jonas,Jill E Keeffe,John H. Kempen,Janet L Leasher,Hans Limburg,Kovin Naidoo,Kovin Naidoo,Konrad Pesudovs,Alexander J Silvester,Gretchen A Stevens,Nina Tahhan,Nina Tahhan,Tien Yin Wong,Hugh R. Taylor,Rupert R A Bourne,Aries Arditi,Yaniv Barkana,Banu Bozkurt,Alain M. Bron,Donald L. Budenz,Feng Cai,Robert J Casson,Usha Chakravarthy,Jaewan Choi,Maria Vittoria Cicinelli,Nathan Congdon,Reza Dana,Rakhi Dandona,Lalit Dandona,Iva Dekaris,Monte A. Del Monte,Jenny deva,Laura E. Dreer,Leon B. Ellwein,Marcela Frazier,Kevin D. Frick,David S. Friedman,João M. Furtado,H. Gao,Gus Gazzard,Ronnie George,Stephen Gichuhi,Victor H. Gonzalez,Billy R. Hammond,Mary Elizabeth Hartnett,Minguang He,James F. Hejtmancik,Flavio E. Hirai,John J Huang,April D. Ingram,Jonathan C. Javitt,Jost B. Jonas,Charlotte E. Joslin,John H Kempen,Moncef Khairallah,Rohit C Khanna,Judy E. Kim,George N. Lambrou,Van C. Lansingh,Paolo Lanzetta,Jennifer I. Lim,Kaweh Mansouri,Anu A. Mathew,Alan R. Morse,Beatriz Munoz,David C. Musch,Vinay Nangia,Maria Palaiou,Maurizio Battaglia Parodi,Fernando Yaacov Pena,Tunde Peto,Harry A. Quigley,Murugesan Raju,Pradeep Y. Ramulu,Zane Rankin,Dana Reza,Alan L. Robin,Luca Rossetti,Jinan B. Saaddine,Mya Sandar,Janet B. Serle,Tueng T. Shen,Rajesh K. Shetty,Pamela C. Sieving,Juan Carlos Silva,Rita S. Sitorus,Dwight Stambolian,Gretchen Stevens,Hugh Taylor,Jaime Tejedor,James M. Tielsch,Miltiadis K. Tsilimbaris,Jan C. van Meurs,Rohit Varma,Gianni Virgili,Ya Xing Wang,Ningli Wang,Sheila K. West,Peter Wiedemann,Tien Wong,Richard Wormald,Yingfeng Zheng +109 more
TL;DR: A series of regression models were fitted to estimate the proportion of moderate or severe vision impairment and blindness by cause, age, region, and year, and found that world regions varied markedly in the causes of blindness and vision impairment in this age group.
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Magnitude, temporal trends, and projections of the global prevalence of blindness and distance and near vision impairment: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Rupert R A Bourne,Seth Flaxman,Tasanee Braithwaite,Maria V Cicinelli,Aditi Das,Jost B. Jonas,Jill E Keeffe,John H Kempen,Janet L Leasher,Hans Limburg,Kovin Naidoo,Kovin Naidoo,Konrad Pesudovs,Serge Resnikoff,Serge Resnikoff,Alexander J Silvester,Gretchen A Stevens,Nina Tahhan,Nina Tahhan,Tien Yin Wong,Hugh R. Taylor,Rupert R A Bourne,Peter Ackland,Aries Arditi,Yaniv Barkana,Banu Bozkurt,Alain M. Bron,Donald L. Budenz,Feng Cai,Robert J Casson,Usha Chakravarthy,Jaewan Choi,Maria Vittoria Cicinelli,Nathan Congdon,Reza Dana,Rakhi Dandona,Lalit Dandona,Iva Dekaris,Monte A. Del Monte,Jenny deva,Laura Dreer,Leon B. Ellwein,Marcela Frazier,Kevin D. Frick,David S. Friedman,João M. Furtado,H. Gao,Gus Gazzard,Ronnie George,Stephen Gichuhi,Victor H. Gonzalez,Billy R. Hammond,Mary Elizabeth Hartnett,Minguang He,James F. Hejtmancik,Flavio E. Hirai,John J Huang,April D. Ingram,Jonathan C. Javitt,Jost B. Jonas,Charlotte E. Joslin,John H. Kempen,John H. Kempen,Moncef Khairallah,Rohit C Khanna,Judy E. Kim,George N. Lambrou,Van C. Lansingh,Paolo Lanzetta,Jennifer I. Lim,Kaweh Mansouri,Anu A. Mathew,Alan R. Morse,Beatriz Munoz,David C. Musch,Vinay Nangia,Maria Palaiou,Maurizio Battaglia Parodi,Fernando Yaacov Pena,Tunde Peto,Harry A. Quigley,Murugesan Raju,Pradeep Y. Ramulu,Alan L. Robin,Luca Rossetti,Jinan B. Saaddine,Mya Sandar,Janet B. Serle,Tueng T. Shen,Rajesh K. Shetty,Pamela C. Sieving,Juan Carlos Silva,Rita S. Sitorus,Dwight Stambolian,Gretchen Stevens,Hugh Taylor,Jaime Tejedor,James M. Tielsch,Miltiadis K. Tsilimbaris,Jan C. van Meurs,Rohit Varma,Gianni Virgili,Jimmy Volmink,Ya Xing Wang,Ningli Wang,Sheila K. West,Peter Wiedemann,Tien Wong,Richard Wormald,Yingfeng Zheng +109 more
TL;DR: There is an ongoing reduction in the age-standardised prevalence of blindness and visual impairment, yet the growth and ageing of the world's population is causing a substantial increase in number of people affected, highlighting the need to scale up vision impairment alleviation efforts at all levels.
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Prevalence and risk factors for refractive errors in the Singapore Malay Eye Survey.
Seang-Mei Saw,Yiong-Huak Chan,Wan-Ling Wong,Anoop Shankar,Mya Sandar,Tin Aung,Donald T.H. Tan,Paul Mitchell,Tien Yin Wong +8 more
TL;DR: The prevalence of myopia, astigmatism, and anisometropia was lower, whereas the prevalence of hyperopia was similar, compared with previous reports of similarly aged Singapore Chinese adults.
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Comparison of measurements of time outdoors and light levels as risk factors for myopia in young Singapore children
Dharani R,Chun Fan Lee,Theng Zx,Vicki B Drury,Cheryl Ngo,Mya Sandar,Tien Yin Wong,Tien Yin Wong,Eric A. Finkelstein,Seang-Mei Saw,Seang-Mei Saw +10 more
TL;DR: Both instruments measure different parameters, time outdoors and light intensity, and could therefore capture different aspects of risk in future myopia studies.
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Prevalence of Age-Related Macular Degeneration in a Malay Population: The Singapore Malay Eye Study
Ryo Kawasaki,Jie Jin Wang,Jie Jin Wang,Tin Aung,Tin Aung,Donald T.H. Tan,Donald T.H. Tan,Paul Mitchell,Mya Sandar,Seang-Mei Saw,Tien Yin Wong +10 more
TL;DR: In this article, the prevalence of early and late AMD in Malay persons aged 40 to 80 years was estimated to be 3.5% (95% confidence interval [CI], 2.9% and 4.1%, respectively.