Purpose To investigate whether myopia is becoming more common across Europe and
explore whether increasing education levels, an important environmental risk factor for …

Abstract The Rotterdam Study is a prospective cohort study ongoing since 1990 in the city of
Rotterdam in The Netherlands. The study targets cardiovascular, endocrine, hepatic …

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Purpose To report the methodology and findings of a large scale investigation of burden and
distribution of refractive error, from a contemporary and ethnically diverse study of health …

Purpose Monozygotic (MZ) twin pairs discordant for disease allow careful examination of
environmental factors whilst controlling for genetic variation. The purpose of this study was …

Purpose To evaluate the association of refractive error with optic nerve hypoplasia (ONH).
Methods A total of 30 ONH subjects were recruited and underwent comprehensive eye …

Background: To evaluate the potential use of the Buckner test to detect significant refractive
errors in infants and children. Methods: In this prospective study Bruckner test was …

Myopia: an epidemic of possibilities? Page 1 EDITORIAL Myopia: an epidemic of possibilities?
The increasing prevalence of myopia1 has attracted recent attention in the popular press.It …

Los defectos de refracción pueden ser corregidos mediante lentes oftálmicos, lentes de
contacto y cirugía refractiva (1). La cirugía refractiva abarca un conjunto de procedimientos …

Objetivos: Trabajos previos muestran que la corrección astigmática mediante cirugía láser
en sujetos con grandes cantidades de astigmatismo interno (AI) es menos predecible. La …