Ethnic differences in the prevalence of myopia and ocular biometry in 10- and 11-year-old children: The child heart and health study in england (CHASE)

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 6270-6276

  Rudnicka, Alicja R ^a   Owen, Christopher G ^a   Nightingale, Claire M ^a   Cook, Derek G ^a   Whincup, Peter H ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN CARIBBEAN; AGE; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BIOMETRY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; EYE AXIS LENGTH; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOPIA; OCULAR BIOMETRY; OPEN FIELD AUTOREFRACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUTH ASIAN; SPECTACLES; UNITED KINGDOM; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; WHITE EUROPEAN;

AXIAL LENGTH, EYE; BIOMETRY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENGLAND; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MYOPIA; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFRACTION, OCULAR; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 79955584373     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-5528     Document Type: Article

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