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 In industrialised countries, the main causes of visual deficit among adults are age‐related macular degeneration, glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy; paediatric blindness is mainly due to retinopathy of prematurity

 In developing countries, the most common causes are cataracts and trachoma; in children, congenital cataracts appear frequently in the context of a polymalformative syndrome (a recognisable pattern of congenital anomalies that are known or thought to be causally related)