Refractive errors in students from Middle Eastern backgrounds living and undertaking schooling in Australia

Clinical and Experimental Optometry

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 67-75

  Azizoglu, Serap ^a   Junghans, Barbara M ^a,b   Barutchu, Ayla ^a   Crewther, Sheila G ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Hyperopia; Middle Eastern; Myopia; Prevalence; Refractive error

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EGYPT; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; LEBANON; MALE; MIDDLE EAST; MYOPIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; REFRACTION ERROR; STATISTICS; STUDENT; URBAN POPULATION; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; EGYPT; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPEROPIA; LEBANON; MALE; MIDDLE EAST; MYOPIA; PREVALENCE; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; STUDENTS; URBAN POPULATION; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 78650691021     PISSN: 08164622     EISSN: 14440938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1444-0938.2010.00563.x     Document Type: Article

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