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Increasing cataract surgical rates to drive growth of global artificial lens market

June 7, 2023

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June is Cataract Awareness Month, a time aimed at raising awareness for the world’s leading cause of blindness. According to the World Health Organization, at least 2.2 billion people globally have some type of vision impairment, about half of which were preventable or have yet to be addressed. Other leading causes of vision impairment include uncorrected refractive errors, macular degeneration, and glaucoma; however, the relatively high prevalence of cataracts poses the most significant financial burden by the measure of lost productivity. Thus, the demand for treating this condition continuously grows, and millions of cataract surgeries are now performed globally every year.

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