Height, Stunting, and Refractive Error Among Rural Chinese Schoolchildren: The See Well to Learn Well Project

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Sharma, Abhishek ^a   Congdon, Nathan ^b,c   Gao, Yang ^b   Lu, Yaogui ^c   Ye, Yanru ^c   Wu, Jing ^c   Lam, Dennis S C ^b,c   Li, Liping ^c   Wu, Jiasi ^c   Tse, Yee Kit ^b   Zhang, Mingzhi ^c   Song, Yue ^c   Griffiths, Sian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c SHANTOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHINESE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOPIA; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; RURAL AREA; SCHOOL CHILD;

EID: 73549118558     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2009.08.015     Document Type: Article

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