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    Completeness of reporting (COR) score for journals publishing prevalence of blindness studies, by inclusion of STROBE in instructions for authors and reviewers, and ophthalmology SCImago Journal Rank.

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    <p>Completeness of reporting (COR) score for journals publishing prevalence of blindness studies, by inclusion of STROBE in instructions for authors and reviewers, and ophthalmology SCImago Journal Rank.</p

    Reporting of STROBE items in 89 blindness prevalence surveys published between January 2008 and March 31 2016.

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    <p>Reporting of STROBE items in 89 blindness prevalence surveys published between January 2008 and March 31 2016.</p

    Cataract surgical coverage (CSC) and effective cataract surgical coverage (eCSC; persons <6/60, %) in 20 countries, 2005–2013.

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    <p>Arranged in ascending order of relative gap between CSC and eCSC (i.e. 1 –eCSC / CSC); the gap is smallest for Argentina and largest for Yemen.</p

    Absolute inequality between women and men in cataract surgical coverage (CSC<sub>persons <6/60</sub>), and effective cataract surgical coverage (eCSC<sub>persons <6/60</sub>) in 20 countries, 2005–2013.

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    <p>Absolute inequality is the difference between women and men (e.g. CSC in men–CSC in women); a positive value indicates women are worse off. Horizontal dashed lines and labels indicate the median values of all studies. Grey shading indicates the inter-quartile range (middle 50% of studies).</p

    Heterogeneous contributions of change in population distribution of body mass index to change in obesity and underweight

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    From 1985 to 2016, the prevalence of underweight decreased, and that of obesity and severe obesity increased, in most regions, with significant variation in the magnitude of these changes across regions. We investigated how much change in mean body mass index (BMI) explains changes in the prevalence of underweight, obesity, and severe obesity in different regions using data from 2896 population-based studies with 187 million participants. Changes in the prevalence of underweight and total obesity, and to a lesser extent severe obesity, are largely driven by shifts in the distribution of BMI, with smaller contributions from changes in the shape of the distribution. In East and Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, the underweight tail of the BMI distribution was left behind as the distribution shifted. There is a need for policies that address all forms of malnutrition by making healthy foods accessible and affordable, while restricting unhealthy foods through fiscal and regulatory restrictions
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