Prevalence and associated factors of myopia in high-school students in Beijing

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

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

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^e EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HAN CHINESE; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOPIA; PREVALENCE; REST; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECTACLES; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORKING TIME; YOUNG ADULT; ETHNOLOGY; EYE REFRACTION; SCHOOL;

ADOLESCENT; BEIJING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE; MYOPIA; PREVALENCE; REFRACTION, OCULAR; SCHOOLS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84925679624     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0120764     Document Type: Article

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