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THE REFRACTION OF ICELANDERS
Author(s) -
SVEINSSON KRISTJAN
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
acta ophthalmologica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.534
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1755-3768
pISSN - 1755-375X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1755-3768.1982.tb06739.x
Subject(s) - refraction , incidence (geometry) , demography , optometry , medicine , optics , physics , sociology
A study of 21 393 Icelanders over a 50‐year‐period showed the incidence of myopia to be 3.60% in 1935 and 20.47% in 1975. The paper discribes the details of this study showing the relative frequencies of different types of refraction in different age groups and with regard to sex.