Refractive errors in a rural Korean adult population: The Namil Study

Eye (Basingstoke)

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1368-1375

  Yoo, Y C ^a   Kim, J M ^b   Park, K H ^c   Kim, C Y ^d   Kim, T W ^e  

^a Hallym University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^d Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^e Seoul National University Bundang Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Anisometropia; Astigmatism; Hyperopia; Myopia; Prevalence; Refractive error

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANISOMETROPIA; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMMETROPIA; FEMALE; HIGH MYOPIA; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; PREVALENCE; REFRACTION ERROR; REFRACTIVE ASTIGMATISM; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUTH KOREA; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANISOMETROPIA; ASTIGMATISM; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPEROPIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; PREVALENCE; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DISTRIBUTION; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84890458395     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: 14765454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/eye.2013.195     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Resnikoff S, Pascolini D, Mariotti SP, Pokharel GP. Global magnitude of visual impairment caused by uncorrected refractive errors in 2004. Bull World Health Organ 2008; 86(1): 63-70.
2. Resnikoff S, Kocur I, Etya'ale DE, Ukety TO. Vision 2020 - the right to sight. Ann Trop Med Parasitol 2008; 102(Suppl): 13-15.
3. Wang Q, Klein BE, Klein R, Moss SE. Refractive status in the beaver dam eye study. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 1994; 35(13): 4344-4347.
4. Katz J, Tielsch JM, Sommer A. Prevalence and risk factors for refractive errors in an adult inner city population. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 1997; 38(2): 334-340.
5. Attebo K, Ivers RQ, Mitchell P. Refractive errors in an older population: the blue mountains eye study. Ophthalmology 1999; 106(6): 1066-1072.
6. Wu SY, Nemesure B, Leske MC. Refractive errors in a black adult population: the barbados eye study. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 1999; 40(10): 2179-2184.
7. Wong TY, Foster PJ, Hee J, Ng TP, Tielsch JM, Chew SJ et al. Prevalence and risk factors for refractive errors in adult Chinese in Singapore. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2000; 41(9): 2486-2494.
8. Saw SM, Gazzard G, Koh D, Farook M, Widjaja D, Lee J et al. Prevalence rates of refractive errors in Sumatra, Indonesia. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2002; 43(10): 3174-3180.
9. Wickremasinghe S, Foster PJ, Uranchimeg D, Lee PS, Devereux JG, Alsbirk PH et al. Ocular biometry and refraction in Mongolian adults. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2004; 45(3): 776-783.
10. Xu L, Li J, Cui T, Hu A, Fan G, Zhang R et al. Refractive error in urban and rural adult Chinese in Beijing. Ophthalmology 2005; 112(10): 1676-1683.
11. Sawada A, Tomidokoro A, Araie M, Iwase A, Yamamoto T. Tajimi Study Group. Refractive errors in an elderly Japanese population: the Tajimi study. Ophthalmology 2008; 115(2): 363-370; e3.
12. He M, Huang W, Li Y, Zheng Y, Yin Q, Foster PJ. Refractive error and biometry in older Chinese adults: the Liwan eye study. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2009; 50(11): 5130-5136.
13. Liang YB, Wong TY, Sun LP, Tao QS, Wang JJ, Yang XH et al. Refractive errors in a rural Chinese adult population the handan eye study. Ophthalmology 2009; 116(11): 2119-2127.
14. Kim CS, Seong GJ, Lee NH, Song KC. Namil Study Group, Korean Glaucoma Society. Prevalence of primary openangle glaucoma in central south Korea the Namil study. Ophthalmology 2011; 118(6): 1024-1030.
15. Chylack Jr LT, Wolfe JK, Singer DM, Leske MC, Bullimore MA, Bailey IL et al. The lens opacities classification system III. the longitudinal study of cataract study group. Arch Ophthalmol 1993; 111(6): 831-836.
16. Hyman L. Myopic and hyperopic refractive error in adults: an overview. Ophthalmic Epidemiol 2007; 14(4): 192-197.
17. Saw SM, Katz J, Schein OD, Chew SJ, Chan TK. Epidemiology of myopia. Epidemiol Rev 1996; 18(2): 175-187.
18. Saw SM, Tong L, Chua WH, Chia KS, Koh D, Tan DT et al. Incidence and progression of myopia in Singaporean school children. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2005; 46(1): 51-57.
19. Fan DS, Lam DS, Lam RF, Lau JT, Chong KS, Cheung EYet al. Prevalence, incidence, and progression of myopia of school children in Hong Kong. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2004; 45(4): 1071-1075.
20. Lee EK, Lee DB, Jin KH, Kim JM. The study of the correlation between axial length and refractive error in Korean children. J Korean Ophthalmol Soc 1993; 34(7): 654-660.
21. Lee KE, Klein BE, Klein R, Wong TY. Changes in refraction over 10 years in an adult population: the beaver dam eye study. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2002; 43(8): 2566-2571.