Macular pigment optical density and its relationship with refractive status and foveal thickness in Chinese school-aged children

Current Eye Research

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 168-173

  Zheng, Wenjing ^a   Zhang, Zhengwei ^a   Jiang, Kelimu ^a   Zhu, Jianfeng ^b   He, Guixian ^b   Ke, Bilian ^a  

^a SHANGHAI FIRST PEOPLE S HOSPITAL   (China)

^b Shanghai Eye Disease Prevention and Treatment Center   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese children; Foveal thickness; Macular pigment optical density (MPOD); Refractive error

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION PARALYSIS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; CHINESE; FEMALE; FOVEAL THICKNESS; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MACULAR PIGMENT OPTICAL DENSITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOPIA; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL DENSITY; PHOTOMETER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; TONOMETER;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHINA; FEMALE; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MACULA LUTEA; MALE; MYOPIA; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84872015651     PISSN: 02713683     EISSN: 14602202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02713683.2012.713150     Document Type: Article

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