Important Causes of Visual Impairment in the World Today

  • Congdon, Nathan G. MD, MPH
  • Friedman, David S. MD, MPH
  • Lietman, Thomas MD

  • Fishbein Fellow.

  • Dana Center for Preventive Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Baltimore, Md (Drs Congdon and Friedman); and Proctor Foundation, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco (Dr Lietman).

Corresponding Author and Reprints: Nathan G. Congdon, MD, MPH, Wilmer 120, 600 N Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD 21287 (e-mail: [email protected]).

Disclosure: The authors state that they have no financial interest in any of the treatments discussed in this article.

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association 290(15):p 2057-2060, October 15, 2003.
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