- ►bmj.com S Thiagalingam, RG Cumming, P Mitchell - British Medical Journal, 2002 - bjo.bmj.com Methods: The Blue Mountains Eye Study was a population based survey of 3654
Australians aged 49–97 years. Examinations included a standardised refraction
and measurement of presenting and best corrected visual acuity. Clinically ... Cited by 17 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
HL Liou, CA McCarty, CL Jin, HR Taylor - American journal of ophthalmology, 1999 - Elsevier RESULTS: There were 5,615 eligible residents, of which 4,735 (84%) participated
in the study (53% were women). In all, 466 participants (10%) had significant
undercorrected refractive error leading to an improvement of 1 or more ... Cited by 57 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
- ►iovs.org B Munoz, SK West, J Rodriguez, R Sanchez, … - Investigative ophthalmology & visual science, 2002 - ARVO METHODS. Proyecto VER is a population-based study of blindness and visual
impairment in Mexican Americans in Arizona. Block groups in Tucson and Nogales
were randomly selected with probability proportional to the size of the ... Cited by 70 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
- ►iovs.org [PDF] R Varma, MY Wang, MY Lai, J Donofrio, SP … - Investigative ophthalmology & visual science, 2008 - ARVO Page 1. Uncorrected refractive error Varma Page 1 1 The Prevalence and Risk
Indicators of Uncorrected Refractive Error and Unmet 1 ... Cited by 1 - Related articles - All 4 versions
M Rosman, TY Wong, W Wong, ML Wong, SM … - British Journal of Ophthalmology, 2009 - bjo.bmj.com Results: Of persons with myopia, 79.5% had heard of myopia, 79.2% of hyperopes
had heard of hyperopia, while only 7.7% of those with astigmatism had heard of
astigmatism. Adults who had never previously visited an eye-care specialist ... Cited by 1 - Related articles - All 3 versions
SM Saw, PJ Foster, G Gazzard, D Friedman, … - Ophthalmology, 2004 - Elsevier The Singapore electoral register of Tanjong Pagar was used as a sampling frame,
and disproportionate, stratified, clustered, random sampling was performed.
There were 1717 eligible adults and 1232 (71.8%) participated. Analysis was ... Cited by 19 - Related articles - All 4 versions
S Foran, K Rose, JJ Wang, P Mitchell - American journal of ophthalmology, 2002 - Elsevier METHODS: The Blue Mountains Eye Study examined 3654 persons aged 49 to 97 during
1992 to 1994 (cross-section 1) and 3509 persons (2335 cohort survivors plus 1174
persons who moved to the area and age group) during 1997 to 2000 ... Cited by 30 - Related articles - All 15 versions
[CITATION] West SK Rodriguez Jet al Blindness, visual impairment and the problem of uncorrected …
- ►nih.gov A Fotouhi, H Hashemi, B Raissi, K … - British Medical Journal, 2006 - bjo.bmj.com Results: The need for spectacles in the studied population, standardised for age
and sex, was 14.1% (95% confidence interval (CI), 12.8% to 15.4%). This need was
met with appropriate spectacles in 416 people (9.3% of the total sample), ... Cited by 12 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
- ►iovs.org RRA Bourne, BP Dineen, DMN Huq, SM Ali, … - Investigative ophthalmology & visual science, 2004 - ARVO RESULTS. Of the 11,624 subjects examined, 2,469 (22.1%) were myopes (less than
-0.5 D) and 2,308 (20.6%) hyperopes (more than +0.5 D). The spectacle coverage
percentage, calculated as [met need/(met need + unmet need) x 100%] was ... Cited by 36 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
