• Association Between Sleep Disturbances and Frailty: Evidence From a Population-Based Study 

      Balomenos V., Ntanasi E., Anastasiou C.A., Charisis S., Velonakis G., Karavasilis E., Tsapanou A., Yannakoulia M., Kosmidis M.H., Dardiotis E., Hadjigeorgiou G., Sakka P., Scarmeas N. (2021)
      Objective: To explore the association between both self-reported quality and quantity sleep characteristics and frailty status in a large non–sex-specific population of older individuals in Greece. Design: Cross-sectional ...
    • An automated blastomere identification method for the evaluation of day 2 embryos during IVF/ICSI treatments 

      Strouthopoulos C., Anifandis G. (2018)
      Purpose Evaluation of human embryos is one of the most important challenges in vitro fertilization (IVF) programs. The morphology and the morphokinetic parameters of the early cleaving embryo are of critical clinical ...
    • Circular economy. The Greek industry leaders’ way towards a transformational shift 

      Trigkas M., Karagouni G., Mpyrou K., Papadopoulos I. (2020)
      Circular Economy (CE) has caught the eye of scholars, practitioners and policy makers. Τhe discussion so far seems to touch mainly the meso and macro level, while investigations on implementation issues regard mainly ...
    • Differences in dyslexic students before and after a remediation program: A clinical neuropsychological and event related potential study 

      Zygouris N.C., Avramidis E., Karapetsas A.V., Stamoulis G.I. (2018)
      Developmental dyslexia is defined as an unexpected specific and persistent failure to acquire efficient reading skills despite conventional instruction, adequate intelligence and sociocultural opportunity. This article ...
    • Eyewear waste management: Issues and trends 

      Mentzelou P., Athanasiadis K., Leopardi N. (2019)
      The most widespread disability in the world is impaired vision. Individuals in order to correct or to improve their vision problems they wear eyeglasses or contact lenses. Additionally, eyeglasses with colored or tinted ...
    • Hearing and vision health for people with dementia in residential long term care: Knowledge, attitudes and practice in England, South Korea, India, Greece, Indonesia and Australia 

      Dawes P., Leroi I., Chauhan N., Han W., Harbishettar V., Jayakody D.M.P., Jones L., Konstantinou A., Maharani A., Martini A., Politis A., Prabhakar S., Prew S., Prouskas C., Russell G., Sturrock A., Sunarti S., Taylor J., Vorvolakos T., Worthington M. (2021)
      Objectives: Up to 90% of people with dementia in long term care (LTC) have hearing and/or vision impairment. Hearing/vision difficulties are frequently under-recognised or incompletely managed. The impacts of hearing/vision ...
    • Intraocular Tamponade Choice with Vitrectomy and Internal Limiting Membrane Peeling for Idiopathic Macular Hole: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis 

      Dervenis N., Dervenis P., Sandinha T., Murphy D.C., Steel D.H. (2022)
      Topic: A variety of different tamponade agents are used with vitrectomy combined with internal limiting membrane (ILM) peeling for the treatment of idiopathic macular holes. These agents include air, gas (sulfur hexafluoride ...
    • Pharmacotherapy of glaucoma: new opportunities, old challenges 

      Katsanos A., Dastiridou A.I. (2017)
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    • Trends in prevalence of blindness and distance and near vision impairment over 30 years: An analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 

      Bourne R.R.A., Steinmetz J.D., Flaxman S., Briant P.S., Taylor H.R., Resnikoff S., Casson R.J., Abdoli A., Abu-Gharbieh E., Afshin A., Ahmadieh H., Akalu Y., Alamneh A.A., Alemayehu W., Alfaar A.S., Alipour V., Anbesu E.W., Androudi S., Arabloo J., Arditi A., Asaad M., Bagli E., Baig A.A., Bärnighausen T.W., Parodi M.B., Bhagavathula A.S., Bhardwaj N., Bhardwaj P., Bhattacharyya K., Bijani A., Bikbov M., Bottone M., Braithwaite T., Bron A.M., Butt Z.A., Cheng C.-Y., Chu D.-T., Cicinelli M.V., Coelho J.M., Dagnew B., Dai X., Dana R., Dandona L., Dandona R., Del Monte M.A., Deva J.P., Diaz D., Djalalinia S., Dreer L.E., Ehrlich J.R., Ellwein L.B., Emamian M.H., Fernandes A.G., Fischer F., Friedman D.S., Furtado J.M., Gaidhane A.M., Gaidhane S., Gazzard G., Gebremichael B., George R., Ghashghaee A., Golechha M., Hamidi S., Hammond B.R., Hartnett M.E.R., Hartono R.K., Hay S.I., Heidari G., Ho H.C., Hoang C.L., Househ M., Ibitoye S.E., Ilic I.M., Ilic M.D., Ingram A.D., Irvani S.S.N., Jha R.P., Kahloun R., Kandel H., Kasa A.S., Kempen J.H., Keramati M., Khairallah M., Khan E.A., Khanna R.C., Khatib M.N., Kim J.E., Kim Y.J., Kisa A., Kisa S., Koyanagi A., Kurmi O.P., Lansingh V.C., Leasher J.L., Leveziel N., Limburg H., Majdan M., Manafi N., Mansouri K., McAlinden C., Mohammadi S.F., Mohammadian-Hafshejani A., Mohammadpourhodki R., Mokdad A.H., Moosavi D., Morse A.R., Naderi M., Naidoo K.S., Nangia V., Nguyen C.T., Nguyen H.L.T., Ogundimu K., Olagunju A.T., Ostroff S.M., Panda-Jones S., Pesudovs K., Peto T., Syed Z.Q., Ur Rahman M.H., Ramulu P.Y., Rawaf D.L., Rawaf S., Reinig N., Robin A.L., Rossetti L., Safi S., Sahebkar A., Samy A.M., Saxena D., Serle J.B., Shaikh M.A., Shen T.T., Shibuya K., Shin J.I., Silva J.C., Silvester A., Singh J.A., Singhal D., Sitorus R.S., Skiadaresi E., Skirbekk V., Soheili A., Sousa R.A.R.C., Spurlock E.E., Stambolian D., Taddele B.W., Tadesse E.G., Tahhan N., Tareque Md.I., Topouzis F., Tran B.X., Travillian R.S., Tsilimbaris M.K., Varma R., Virgili G., Wang N., Wang Y.X., West S.K., Wong T.Y., Zaidi Z., Zewdie K.A., Jonas J.B., Vos T., GBD 2019 Blindness and Vision Impairment Collaborators, Vision Loss Expert Group of the Global Burden of Disease Study (2021)
      Background: To contribute to the WHO initiative, VISION 2020: The Right to Sight, an assessment of global vision impairment in 2020 and temporal change is needed. We aimed to extensively update estimates of global vision ...
    • Uncertainty-aware visual perception system for outdoor navigation of the visually challenged 

      Dimas G., Diamantis D.E., Kalozoumis P., Iakovidis D.K. (2020)
      Every day, visually challenged people (VCP) face mobility restrictions and accessibility limitations. A short walk to a nearby destination, which for other individuals is taken for granted, becomes a challenge. To tackle ...
    • WarmStart colorimetric RT-LAMP for the rapid, sensitive and specific detection of Enteroviruses A–D targeting the 5′UTR region 

      Daskou M., Dimitriou T.G., Alexopoulou D.S., Tsakogiannis D., Amoutzias G.D., Mossialos D., Kyriakopoulou Z., Markoulatos P. (2021)
      Aims: The aim of the present study was to develop a colorimetric LAMP assay for the detection of enteroviruses belonging to species A–D targeting the 5′ untranslated region (5′ UTR) of enteroviruses genome. Methods and ...
    • What scans see when patients see defects: neuroimaging findings in body dysmorphic disorder 

      Machremi E., Bakirtzis C., Karakasi M.-V., Boziki M.-K., Siokas V., Aloizou A.-M., Dardiotis E., Grigoriadis N. (2022)
      Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is characterized by an individual’s preoccupation with a perceived defect in their appearance which to others may be barely noticeable or even completely unnoticed. It confers significant ...