Refractive error and biometry in older chinese adults: The liwan eye study

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 5130-5136

  He, Mingguang ^a   Huang, Wenyong ^a   Li, Yuetao ^a   Zheng, Yingfeng ^a   Yin, Qiuxia ^a   Foster, Paul J ^b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; APHAKIA; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; BIOMETRY; CHINESE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; LENS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOCULAR VISION; MYOPIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; SEX DIFFERENCE; THICKNESS; VISION;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BIOMETRY; CHINA; EYE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; REFRACTION, OCULAR; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; URBAN POPULATION; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 78649420988     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-3455     Document Type: Article

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