Prevalence of visual impairment and refractive errors in an urban area of Mexico
| Autor: | Milagro Inés Murillo, David P. Piñero, Isabel Signes-Soler, Silvia Tablada |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Óptica, Farmacología y Anatomía, Grupo de Óptica y Percepción Visual (GOPV) |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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hyperopia
Refractive error medicine.medical_specialty Bilateral amblyopia Distance visual acuity genetic structures Population Visual impairment visual impairment Blindness Screening Examination 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine lcsh:Ophthalmology Ophthalmology Myopia Medicine myopia refractive error education Óptica Investigation education.field_of_study medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry medicine.disease eye diseases Hyperopia lcsh:RE1-994 Eye examination 030221 ophthalmology & optometry sense organs medicine.symptom business blindness |
| Zdroj: | RUA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Alicante Universidad de Alicante (UA) International Journal of Ophthalmology, Vol 12, Iss 10, Pp 1612-1617 (2019) |
| Popis: | AIM: To determine the distribution of refractive errors in a school-age population in Quintana Roo (Mexico) in the framework of an international cooperation campaign for the prevention of blindness. METHODS: A sample of 2647 school-age children (ranging from 5 to 14 years old) with a mean age of 9.1±1.9 years old were tested by trained volunteers for distance visual acuity (VA) and refractive errors. The first screening examination included uncorrected distance visual acuity (UDVA) and VA with a +2.00 D lens. Inclusion criteria for a second complete cycloplegic eye examination performed by an optometrist were UDVA |
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