The high prevalence of myopia in Korean children with influence of parental refractive errors: The 2008-2012 Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

The present study was conducted to investigate the effect of parental refractive errors on myopic children in Korean families using a nationally representative survey. We used the ophthalmologic examination dataset of the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys IV and V, a nationwid...

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Main Authors: Dong Hui Lim, Jisang Han, Tae-Young Chung, Sewoong Kang, Hyeon Woo Yim, Epidemiologic Survey Committee of the Korean Ophthalmologic Society
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6261017?pdf=render