The impact of corrected and uncorrected refractive error on visual functioning: The Singapore Malay Eye Study

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2614-2620

  Lamoureux, Ecosse L ^a,b   Saw, Seang Mei ^c   Thumboo, Julian ^c   Wee, Hwee Lin ^c,d   Aung, Tin ^b,c   Mitchell, Paul ^e   Wong, Tien Y ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOPIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; READING; REFRACTION ERROR; SINGAPORE; TELEVISION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URBAN AREA; VF 11 SCALE; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL MEMORY; CONTACT LENS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SPECTACLES; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTACT LENSES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EYEGLASSES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPEROPIA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SINGAPORE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS;

EID: 66849127751     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.08-2164     Document Type: Article

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