Refractive errors of medical students in Turkey: One year follow-up of refraction and biometry

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 175-180

  Onal, Sumru ^a,b   Toker, Ebru ^a   Akingol, Ziya ^a   Arslan, Gul ^a   Ertan, Semra ^a   Turan, Can ^a   Kaplan, Onur ^a  

^a MARMARA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b Altunizade Mah   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Medical student; Myopia; Refractive error

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRICS; DISEASES; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; STUDENTS;

MEDICAL STUDENT; MYOPIA; REFRACTIVE ERROR;

REFRACTION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; KERATOMETRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOPIA; ONSET AGE; PARENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFRACTION ERROR; RISK FACTOR; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTERIOR CHAMBER; BIOMETRY; CORNEA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; REFRACTION, OCULAR; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TURKEY; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 34247576271     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OPX.0b013e3180335c52     Document Type: Article

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