Prevalence of the refractive errors by age and gender: The Mashhad eye study of Iran

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 743-751

  Ostadimoghaddam, Hadi ^a   Fotouhi, Akbar ^b   Hashemi, Hassan ^c,e   Yekta, Abbasali ^a   Heravian, Javad ^a   Rezvan, Farhad ^e   Ghadimi, Hamidreza ^d   Rezvan, Bijan ^e   Khabazkhoob, Mehdi ^e  

^a MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e NOOR EYE HOSPITAL   (Iran)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Hyperopia; Myopia

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOPIA; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; REFRACTION ERROR; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; REFRACTION, OCULAR; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80255133219     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2011.02584.x     Document Type: Article

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