Prevalence of Hyperopia and Associations with Eye Findings in 6- and 12-Year-Olds

Ophthalmology

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Ip, Jenny M ^a   Robaei, Dana ^a   Kifley, Annette ^a   Wang, Jie Jin ^a   Rose, Kathryn A ^a   Mitchell, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AMBLYOPIA; ANAMNESIS; ANISOMETROPIA; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; BIOMETRY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EYE EXAMINATION; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL SMOKING; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPECTACLES; STRABISMUS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 41149086378     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2007.04.061     Document Type: Article

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