Myopia over the lifecourse: Prevalence and early life influences in the 1958 British birth cohort

Ophthalmology

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 797-804

  Rahi, Jugnoo S ^a,b   Cumberland, Phillippa M ^a   Peckham, Catherine S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION PARALYSIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDUCATION; EMMETROPIA; EYE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GROWTH; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; LIFESTYLE; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL SMOKING; MYOPIA; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL PERIOD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STATUS; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; PREVALENCE; REFRACTION, OCULAR; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955620762     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2010.09.025     Document Type: Article

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