Prevalence of astigmatism in 6- to 72-month-old African American and Hispanic children: The multi-ethnic pediatric eye disease study

Ophthalmology

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 284-293

  Fozailoff, Arezoo ^a   Tarczy Hornoch, Kristina ^a   Cotter, Susan ^a   Wen, Ge ^a   Lin, Jesse ^a   Borchert, Mark ^a   Azen, Stanley ^a   Varma, Rohit ^a  

^a DOHENY EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNICITY; EYE EXAMINATION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; VISUAL DISORDER;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ASTIGMATISM; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INFANT; LOS ANGELES; MALE; PREVALENCE; REFRACTION, OCULAR; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 79551540854     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2010.06.038     Document Type: Article

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