Frequency of under-corrected refractive errors in elderly Chinese in Beijing

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 244, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 871-873

  Xu, Liang ^a   Li, Jianjun ^a   Cui, Tongtong ^a   Tong, Zhongbiao ^a   Fan, Guizhi ^a   Yang, Hua ^a   Sun, Baochen ^a   Zheng, Yuanyuan ^a   Jonas, Jost B ^b,c  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blindness; Education; Gender; Myopia; Poor vision; Refractive error; Visual impairment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CHINA; CHINESE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ERROR; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; RURAL AREA; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; URBAN AREA; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

EID: 33746306007     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-005-0206-1     Document Type: Article

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