Visually Impaired Persons
"Visually Impaired Persons" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Persons with loss of vision such that there is an impact on activities of daily living.
| Descriptor ID |
D019987
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| MeSH Number(s) |
M01.150.850
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| Concept/Terms |
Visually Impaired Persons- Visually Impaired Persons
- Impaired Person, Visually
- Impaired Persons, Visually
- Person, Visually Impaired
- Persons, Visually Impaired
- Visually Impaired Person
- Blind Persons
- Blind Person
- Person, Blind
- Persons, Blind
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Visually Impaired Persons" by people in Profiles.
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Individuals Across the Spectrum of Visual Impairment. Am J Ophthalmol. 2021 07; 227:53-65.
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COVID-19 and Visual Disability: Can't Look and Now Don't Touch. PM R. 2021 04; 13(4):415-421.
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Distance support and online intervention to blind and visually impaired children during the pandemic COVID-19. Res Dev Disabil. 2021 Jan; 108:103816.
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COVID-19: The regional impact of COVID-19 on the certification of vision impairment in Northern Ireland. Ophthalmic Physiol Opt. 2021 01; 41(1):136-143.
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Helping the Blind to Get through COVID-19: Social Distancing Assistant Using Real-Time Semantic Segmentation on RGB-D Video. Sensors (Basel). 2020 Sep 12; 20(18).
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Singapore Chinese Eye Study: key findings from baseline examination and the rationale, methodology of the 6-year follow-up series. Br J Ophthalmol. 2020 05; 104(5):610-615.
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Light modulates oscillatory alpha activity in the occipital cortex of totally visually blind individuals with intact non-image-forming photoreception. Sci Rep. 2018 11 16; 8(1):16968.
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Trends of Visual Impairment and Blindness in the Singapore Chinese Population over a Decade. Sci Rep. 2018 08 15; 8(1):12224.
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Global prevalence of visual impairment associated with myopic macular degeneration and temporal trends from 2000 through 2050: systematic review, meta-analysis and modelling. Br J Ophthalmol. 2018 07; 102(7):855-862.
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Suppression of Melatonin Secretion in Totally Visually Blind People by Ocular Exposure to White Light: Clinical Characteristics. Ophthalmology. 2018 08; 125(8):1160-1171.