Prevalence of myopia in school children in greater Beijing: The Beijing Childhood Eye Study

Acta Ophthalmologica

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  You, Qi Sheng ^a   Wu, Li Juan ^b   Duan, Jia Li ^c   Luo, Yan Xia ^b   Liu, Li Juan ^a   Li, Xia ^b   Gao, Qi ^b   Wang, Wei ^b,d   Xu, Liang ^a,b   Jonas, Jost B ^a,e   Guo, Xiu Hua ^b  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^d EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

amblyopia; anisometropia; myopia; myopic shift; refractive error

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION PARALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOPIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCHOOL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPECTACLES; URBAN AREA; YOUNG ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; EYE REFRACTION; MULTICENTER STUDY; PHYSIOLOGY; RURAL POPULATION; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBAN POPULATION; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EYEGLASSES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MYOPIA; PREVALENCE; REFRACTION, OCULAR; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DISTRIBUTION; URBAN POPULATION; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84904735022     PISSN: 1755375X     EISSN: 17553768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/aos.12299     Document Type: Article

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