Ethnicity-specific prevalences of refractive errors vary in Asian children in neighbouring Malaysia and Singapore

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 90, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1230-1235

  Saw, S M ^a   Goh, P P ^c   Cheng, A ^b   Shankar, A ^a   Tan, D T H ^b   Ellwein, L B ^d  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^c Hospital Selayang   (Malaysia)

^d NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAYSIA; MALE; MYOPIA; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGAPORE;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ASTIGMATISM; CHILD; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPEROPIA; MALAYSIA; MALE; MYOPIA; PREVALENCE; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; SINGAPORE;

EID: 33750302859     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2006.093450     Document Type: Article

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