The prevalence of refractive errors among adults in the United States, Western Europe, and Australia.

By J. Kempen, P. Mitchell, Kristine E. Lee, J. Tielsch, A. Broman, H. Taylor, M. Ikram, N. Congdon, Benita J. O’Colmain. A M A Archives of Ophthalmology, 2004

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Subfields: Epidemiology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging

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Citations in the corpus

• How genetic is school myopia? (2005, neutral): “…18.38(f); 22.52(m) p 1D Non-cycloplegic refractive error Kempen et al. (2004) United States Standardised data, Hispanic 40–49 25.13(f); 21.82(m) p 1D Non-cycloplegic refractive error Kempen et al. (2004) Barbados Black 1987–1992 40–49 17 o 0.5D Non-cycloplegic autorefraction Wu et al. (1999) a…”
• The epidemics of myopia: Aetiology and prevention (2017, neutral): “…study reported a prevalence of myopia of 52.2% for those aged 20e39 (Vitale et al., 2008), and similar values were reported for the youngest cohorts from Europe in the Gutenberg Health Survey (Wolfram et al., 2014) and from a meta-analysis of predominantly American studies (Kempen et al., 2004).”
• Worldwide prevalence and risk factors for myopia (2011, neutral): “However, the meta-analysis by Kempen et al.(27) showed that the prevalence of myopia is 25.”