A nationwide population-based survey on visual acuity, near vision, and self-reported visual function in the adult population in Finland

Ophthalmology

Volumn 112, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2227-2237

  Laitinen, Arja ^a   Koskinen, Seppo ^a   Härkänen, Tommi ^a   Reunanen, Antti ^a   Laatikainen, Leila ^b   Aromaa, Arpo ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; BLINDNESS; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MYOPIA; POPULATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EYEGLASSES; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SELF DISCLOSURE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; VISION DISORDERS; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS;

EID: 28344453691     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2005.09.010     Document Type: Article

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