Incidence of myopia in Swedish schoolchildren: A longitudinal study

The prevalence of myopia in Scandinavia tends to be lower than in other parts of the world. This study aimed to investigate the incidence of myopia and its predictors in Swedish children to characterise this trend. A 2-year longitudinal study was conducted following a cohort of schoolchildren aged 8...

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Published in:	Ophthalmic & physiological optics Vol. 44; no. 6; pp. 1301 - 1308
Main Authors:	Demir, Pelsin, Baskaran, Karthikeyan, Ramos, Pedro Lima, Naduvilath, Thomas, Sankaridurg, Padmaja, Macedo, Antonio Filipe
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	England Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01-09-2024
Subjects:	Adolescent Child Children Female Follow-Up Studies Humans Hypotheses Incidence Longitudinal Studies Male Myopia Myopia - epidemiology Myopia - physiopathology Optometri Optometry parental myopia predictors Prevalence Refraction, Ocular - physiology refractive error Sweden - epidemiology Sweden predictors myopia prevalence refractive error parental myopia incidence
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