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Nathan Congdon
Researcher at Sun Yat-sen University
Publications - 358
Citations - 20878
Nathan Congdon is an academic researcher from Sun Yat-sen University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Cataract surgery. The author has an hindex of 54, co-authored 322 publications receiving 17194 citations. Previous affiliations of Nathan Congdon include Shantou University & Queen's University.
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Causes and prevalence of visual impairment among adults in the United States.
Nathan Congdon,O'Colmain Bj,Caroline C W Klaver,Ronald Klein,Beatriz Munoz,David S. Friedman,John H. Kempen,Hugh R. Taylor,Paul Mitchell +8 more
TL;DR: The prevalence of visual disabilities will increase markedly during the next 20 years, owing largely to the aging of the US population.
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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 of open-angle glaucoma among adults in the United States.
David S. Friedman,Roger C. W. Wolfs,O'Colmain Bj,Barbara E.K. Klein,Hugh R. Taylor,Sheila G. West,M. C. Leske,Paul Mitchell,Nathan Congdon,John H. Kempen +9 more
TL;DR: Open-angle glaucoma affects more than 2 million individuals in the United States and, due to the rapid aging of the US population, this number will increase to more than 3 million by 2020.
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Important causes of visual impairment in the world today.
TL;DR: In the United States, more than 937000 people were blind and 2.4 million people had low vision in 2002 as mentioned in this paper and the number of people with low vision is expected to increase significantly during the next decades as the world's population ages.