Rural-urban differences in prevalence of and risk factors for refractive errors among school children and adolescents aged 6-18 years in Dalian, China

• Main Authors: Yachen Wang (Author), Lei Liu (Author), Zhili Lu (Author), Yiyin Qu (Author), Xianlong Ren (Author), Jiaojiao Wang (Author), Yan Lu (Author), Wei Liang (Author), Yue Xin (Author), Nan Zhang (Author), Lin Jin (Author), Lijing Wang (Author), Jian Song (Author), Jian Yu (Author), Lijun Zhao (Author), Xiang Ma (Author), Lijun Zhang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2022-08-01T00:00:00Z.
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PurposeTo assess the prevalence of refractive errors (REs) in school children aged 6-18 years in urban and rural settings in Dalian, Northeast of China.MethodsThis is a school-based cross-sectional survey using multi-stage randomization technique. Six- to eighteen-year-old school children from eleme...