Refractive errors among medical students: Risk factor assessment
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Prevalence and progression of refractive errors among medical students.
Wearing spectacles was a province of adults over 40 years age till half century earlier. Now we find more children and adolescents wearing spectacles. There have been dramatic rise both in prevalence as well as progression of refractive errors especially myopia in children and adolescents. Various studies in Asian population demonstrate a rise in refractive error (RE) among school and college s...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Research in Medical and Dental Science
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2347-2545
DOI: 10.5455/jrmds.20153410