Family history and reading habits in adult-onset myopia

Current Eye Research

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 309-315

  Iribarren, Rafael ^a   Iribarren, Guillermo ^a   Castagnola, Maria M ^a   Balsa, Alejandra ^a   Cerrella, Mario R ^a   Armesto, Alejandro ^a   Fornaciari, Andrea ^b   Pförtner, Tomás ^c  

^a Centro Medico San Luis   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DEL SALVADOR   (Argentina)

^c Laboratorio Pfortner Cornealent SA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Adult myopia; Family history; Nearwork

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOPIA; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; READING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SPECTACLES;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTACT LENSES, HYDROPHILIC; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FAMILY; FEMALE; HABITS; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOPIA; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; READING; REFRACTION, OCULAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0036875728     PISSN: 02713683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/ceyr.25.5.309.13494     Document Type: Article

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