Children's myopia: prevention and the role of school programmes
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چکیده
There are 12.8 million children worldwide who are visually impaired due to uncorrected refractive error (URE)1, the leading cause of visual impairment among children wherever the problem has been studied.2 Half of these children live in China1, where the total number with URE may reach 100 million by 2020.3 The prevalence of myopia, the most common refractive error, is growing rapidly in children around the world, reaching 80–90% among East Asian secondary school students.4
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دوره 30 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2017