Prevalence of myopia and high myopia, and the association with education: Shanghai Child and Adolescent Large-scale Eye Study (SCALE): a cross-sectional study

ObjectivesTo report on: (a) overall myopia and high myopia prevalence, and (b) the impact of education on the spherical equivalent refractive error in children across Shanghai.DesignCross-sectional study.SettingAcross all 17 districts of Shanghai.Participants910 245 children aged 4–14 years from a s...

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Published in:	BMJ open Vol. 11; no. 12; p. e048450
Main Authors:	He, Xiangui, Sankaridurg, Padmaja, Xiong, Shuyu, Li, Wayne, Naduvilath, Thomas, Lin, Senlin, Weng, Rebecca, Lv, Minzhi, Ma, Yingyan, Lu, Lina, Wang, Jingjing, Zhao, Rong, Resnikoff, Serge, Zhu, Jianfeng, Zou, Haidong, Xu, Xun
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	England British Medical Journal Publishing Group 23.12.2021 BMJ Publishing Group LTD BMJ Publishing Group
Series:	Original research
Subjects:	Adolescence Adolescent Age Child Child, Preschool Children & youth China - epidemiology Cross-Sectional Studies Education epidemiology Gender Humans Infant Multivariate analysis Myopia Myopia - epidemiology Ophthalmology Pediatrics Prevalence Public health Questionnaires Refraction, Ocular Teenagers China Japan epidemiology ophthalmology public health
ISSN:	2044-6055, 2044-6055
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