Prevalence and risk factors for refractive errors in Indians: The Singapore Indian eye study (SINDI)

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 3166-3173

  Pan, Chen Wei ^a   Wong, Tien Yin ^a,b,c   Lavanya, Raghavan ^b   Wu, Ren Yi ^b   Zheng, Ying Feng ^b   Lin, Xiao Yu ^a,b   Mitchell, Paul ^d   Aung, Tin ^a,b   Saw, Seang Mei ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANISOMETROPIA; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; INDIAN; MALE; MYOPIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFRACTION ERROR; RISK FACTOR; VISUAL ACUITY; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ASIAN; BODY CONSTITUTION; ETHNOLOGY; INDIA; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX RATIO; SINGAPORE; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY CONSTITUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SINGAPORE; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 79960957474     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-6210     Document Type: Article

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