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Patterns of myopigenic activities with age, gender and ethnicity in Sydney schoolchildren

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Authors

French, Amanda N

Morgan, Ian

Mitchell, Paul

Rose, Kathryn A

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Abstract

Purpose: To examine the patterns of myopigenic activity (high near work, low time outdoors) in children growing up in Sydney, Australia, by age, ethnicity and gender. Methods: The Sydney Adolescent Vascular and Eye Study (SAVES) re-examined children from

Keywords

Keywords: age; analysis of variance; article; Asian; Australia; Caucasian; child; cohort analysis; ethnology; female; follow up; human; leisure; male; myopia; questionnaire; reading; sex difference; Age Factors; Analysis of Variance; Asian Continental Ancestry Grou Adolescents; Lifestyle; Myopia; Refractive error

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/74432

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1111/opo.12045

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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