About the Authors

Ravilla D. Ravindran

Affiliation Aravind Eye Hospital Pondicherry, Pondicherry, India

Praveen Vashist

Affiliation Dr. Rajendra Prasad Center for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Sanjeev K. Gupta

Affiliation Dr. Rajendra Prasad Center for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Ian S. Young

Affiliation Centre for Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

Giovanni Maraini

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Otorino-Odonto-Oftalmologiche e Cervico Facciali, Sezione di Oftalmologia, Università degli Studi di Parma, Parma, Italy

Monica Camparini

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Otorino-Odonto-Oftalmologiche e Cervico Facciali, Sezione di Oftalmologia, Università degli Studi di Parma, Parma, Italy

R. Jayanthi

Affiliation Aravind Eye Hospital Pondicherry, Pondicherry, India

Neena John

Affiliation Dr. Rajendra Prasad Center for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Kathryn E. Fitzpatrick

Affiliation Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Usha Chakravarthy

Affiliation Centre for Vision and Vascular Science, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

Thulasiraj D. Ravilla

Affiliation Lions Aravind Institute of Community Ophthalmology, Madurai, India

Astrid E. Fletcher

astrid.fletcher@lshtm.ac.uk

Affiliation Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RDR AEF UC. Performed the experiments: RDR PV SKG RJ NJ. Analyzed the data: AEF KEF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ISY. Wrote the paper: AF RDR. Designed nutritional software for dietary data: RDR TR RJ. Provided critical revisions of important intellectual content: ISY GM MC UC TR.