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Re: Evidence for an “epidemic” of myopia

Published:2004-07-15 Issue:4 Volume:33 Page:541-544
ISSN:0304-4602
Container-title:Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore
language:en
Short-container-title:Ann Acad Med Singap

Author:

Morgan IG¹,Rose KA²,Smith W³,Mitchell P²

Affiliation:

1. Australian National University, Australia

2. University of Sydney, Australia

3. University of Newcastle, Australia

Abstract

In the Annals January 2004 theme issue on Myopia, Park and Congdon have disputed the reality of the increases in prevalence of myopia in East Asia for several reasons. In particular, they criticise the 2 best documented sets of cohort data, from Taiwan and Singapore, on methodological grounds.

Publisher

Academy of Medicine, Singapore

Subject

General Medicine

Reference32 articles.

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