Population-based assessment of refractive error in India: The Andhra Pradesh eye disease study

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 84-93

  Dandona, Rakhi ^a,b,c   Dandona, Lalit ^a,b   Srinivas, Marmamula ^a   Giridhar, Pyda ^a   McCarty, Catherine A ^c   Rao, Gullapalli N ^a  

^a L V PRASAD EYE INSTITUTE   (India)

^b ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF COLLEGE OF INDIA   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Children; India; Myopia; Population based; Refractive error

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION PARALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FETUS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOPIA; POPULATION RESEARCH; POPULATION RISK; PREVALENCE; REFRACTION ERROR; RURAL POPULATION; SAMPLING; SEX DIFFERENCE; URBAN POPULATION; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DISTRIBUTION; URBAN POPULATION; VISION TESTS;

EID: 0036245149     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-6404.2002.00492.x     Document Type: Article

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