Season of Birth, Natural Light, and Myopia

Ophthalmology

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 686-692

  Mandel, Yossi ^a,b   Grotto, Itamar ^a,c   El Yaniv, Ran ^d   Belkin, Michael ^e   Israeli, Eran ^a,f   Polat, Uri ^e   Bartov, Elisha ^g  

^a MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^d TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^e TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^f HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^g WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDUCATION; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MYOPIA; OPTOMETRY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHOTOPERIODICITY; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTOMETRY; RISK FACTOR; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUNLIGHT; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MYOPIA; ODDS RATIO; PARTURITION; PHOTOPERIOD; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 41149087400     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2007.05.040     Document Type: Article

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