Prevalence and Risk Factors for Refractive Errors in the Singapore Malay Eye Survey

Ophthalmology

Volumn 115, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1713-1719

  Saw, Seang Mei ^a,b   Chan, Yiong Huak ^a   Wong, Wan Ling ^b   Shankar, Anoop ^a   Sandar, Mya ^a,b   Aung, Tin ^a,b   Tan, Donald T H ^a,b   Mitchell, Paul ^c   Wong, Tien Yin ^a,b,d  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOPIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; RISK FACTOR; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; RISK FACTORS; SINGAPORE; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 52949135172     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2008.03.016     Document Type: Article

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