On the plausible association between environmental conditions and human eye damage

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 163-165

  Feretis, Elias ^a   Theodorakopoulos, Panagiotis ^b   Varotsos, Costas ^c   Efstathiou, Maria ^c   Tzanis, Christos ^c   Xirou, Tzina ^a   Alexandridou, Nancy ^a   Aggelou, Michael ^d  

^a RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d Athens Eye Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Eye damages; Ocular defects, solar ultraviolet radiation

Indexed keywords

HEALTH RISK; SOLAR RADIATION;

AIR POLLUTANT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EYE; EYE DISEASE; FEMALE; FOOD INDUSTRY; GREECE; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; OCCUPATION; PATHOLOGY; RELIGION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; EYE; EYE DISEASES; FEMALE; FISHERIES; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; OCCUPATIONS; RELIGION; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 0036048736     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02987482     Document Type: Article

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3. Health effects on human eye resulting from the increased ambient solar ultraviolet radiation
4. Erythemally weighted UV trends over northern latitudes derived from Nimbus 7 TOMS measurements