Myopic Shift and Outdoor Activity among Primary School Children: One-Year Follow-Up Study in Beijing

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Guo, Yin ^a   Liu, Li Juan ^a   Xu, Liang ^a   Tang, Ping ^a   Lv, Yan Yun ^a   Feng, Yi ^a   Meng, Meng ^a   Jonas, Jost B ^a,b  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Department of Ophthalmology ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CURVATURE; EYE AXIS LENGTH; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDOOR ACTIVITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MYOPIA; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OUTDOOR ACTIVITY; PARENTAL SMOKING; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMARY SCHOOL; REFLECTOMETRY; REFRACTION ERROR; REFRACTOMETRY; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; TELEVISION VIEWING; URBAN POPULATION;

AGE FACTORS; AXIAL LENGTH, EYE; CHILD; CHINA; ENVIRONMENT; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LEISURE ACTIVITIES; MYOPIA; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; VISION TESTS;

EID: 84884582801     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0075260     Document Type: Article

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