{"id":1015,"date":"2014-05-29T10:53:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T10:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/iceh-new\/?p=1015"},"modified":"2014-05-29T10:59:15","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T10:59:15","slug":"fifth-nigerian-adults-degree-lens-opacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/iceh-new\/fifth-nigerian-adults-degree-lens-opacity\/","title":{"rendered":"A fifth of Nigerian adults have some degree of lens opacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April&#8217;s issue of Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science publishes the latest paper\u00a0from the\u00a0\u00a0National Blindness and Visual Impairment \u00a0Survey in Nigeria. The authros examined\u00a0prevalence and risk factors for lens opacities among a nationally representative sample of Nigerians aged \u2265 40 years.\u00a0A fifth of Nigerian adults were found to have\u00a0some degree of lens opacity\u00a0and further studies are needed to investigate the role of ethnicity, climate variables, and other risk factors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/24526441\">View the abstract in PubMed<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Nigeria national blindness and visual impairment survey\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/iceh-new\/nigeria-national-blindness-and-visual-impairment-survey\/\">Find out more about the \u00a0National Blindness and Visual Impairment \u00a0Survey in Nigeria<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April&#8217;s issue of Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science publishes the latest paper\u00a0from the\u00a0\u00a0National Blindness and Visual Impairment \u00a0Survey in Nigeria. The authros examined\u00a0prevalence and risk factors for lens opacities among a nationally representative sample of Nigerians aged \u2265 40 years.\u00a0A fifth of Nigerian adults were found to have\u00a0some degree of lens opacity\u00a0and further studies are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A fifth of Nigerian adults have some degree of lens opacity - ICEH<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/iceh-new\/fifth-nigerian-adults-degree-lens-opacity\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A fifth of Nigerian adults have some degree of lens opacity - ICEH\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"April&#8217;s issue of Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science publishes the latest paper\u00a0from the\u00a0\u00a0National Blindness and Visual Impairment \u00a0Survey in Nigeria. 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