Parental smoking and childhood refractive error: The STARS study

Eye (Basingstoke)

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1324-1328

  Iyer, J V ^a,b   Low, W Cj ^c   Dirani, M ^d   Saw, S M ^b,c  

^a SINGAPORE NATIONAL EYE CENTRE   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Myopia; Parental; Smoking

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION PARALYSIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL SMOKING; MYOPIA; PARENTAL SMOKING; PATERNAL SMOKING; PREGNANCY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFRACTION ERROR; SINGAPORE;

EID: 84867489739     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: 14765454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/eye.2012.160     Document Type: Article

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