Variation of the contribution from axial length and other oculometric parameters to refraction by age and ethnicity

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 4846-4853

  Ip, Jenny M ^a   Huynh, Son C ^a   Kifley, Annette ^a   Rose, Kathryn A ^a   Morgan, Lan G ^b   Varma, Rohit ^c   Mitchell, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CYCLOPLEGIC AUTOREFRACTION; ETHNICITY; EYE EXAMINATION; EYE REFRACTION; HUMAN; KERATOMETRY; LENS; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOPIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; AGING; ASIAN; AUSTRALIA; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORNEA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; EYE; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MULTICENTER STUDY; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR;

AGING; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BIOMETRY; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CHILD; CORNEA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EYE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MYOPIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; REFRACTION, OCULAR; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 35748984671     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.07-0101     Document Type: Article

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