Format:
1 online resource (420 pages)
ISBN:
9789812832986
Content:
Myopia is the most common optical disorder in the world, and is on the rise in many countries, particularly in East Asia. The impact of myopia is evident as the driving force in the development of refractive surgery and of the spectacle and contact lens industries. While myopia is often seen as a childhood disease that involves complex genetic-environmental factors, it is also a major cause of adult blindness. In Singapore (where myopia has reached one of the highest rates in the world) as well as in Taiwan, Japan and Hong Kong, affected patients have greater severity of myopia, leading to additional secondary complications such as glaucoma. This book provides a comprehensive coverage of all aspects of myopia. It is aimed at ophthalmologists, optometrists, opticians, scientists and pharmaceutical companies. The topics are uniquely treated in that they cover research at the laboratory bench as well as clinical applications and population-based approaches in epidemiology.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Dedication -- Message -- About the Editors -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Section 1 Epidemiology and Risk Factors -- Chapter 1.1 Epidemiology of Myopia and Myopic Shift in Refraction Barbara E.K. Klein -- Introduction -- Methodologic Issues -- Review of Studies (Table 1) -- Cohort Effects on Myopia -- Risk Factors for Myopia -- Near work -- Education/Income -- Outdoor activity -- Age -- Race/Ethnicity -- Nuclear cataract -- Family aggregation/Genetics -- Siblings -- Parent-child -- Other family members -- Genetics -- Comments -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 1.2 Environmental Risk Factors for Myopia in Children Wilson C.J. Low, Tien-Yin Wong and Seang-Mei Saw -- Introduction -- Definition of Myopia in Epidemiologic Studies -- Risk Factors for Myopia and Ocular Biometry -- Family history of myopia -- Near work -- Outdoor activity -- Stature -- Birth parameters -- Smoking history -- Breastfeeding -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 1.3 Gene-Environment Interactions in the Aetiology of Myopia Ian G. Morgan and Kathryn A. Rose -- Introduction -- Aetiological Heterogeneity of Myopia -- Clearly genetic forms of myopia -- School or acquired myopia -- Misunderstandings of Heritability and Twin Studies -- But Heritability has Its Uses -- Evidence for Genetic Associations of School Myopia -- Evidence for the Impact of Environmental Factors on Myopia Phenotypes -- Gene-Environment Interactions and Ethnicity -- Gene-Environment Interactions and Parental Myopia -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 1.4 The Economics of Myopia Marcus C.C. Lim and Kevin D. Frick -- Introduction -- Economic evaluations -- Full vs partial evaluations -- Economic evaluation of myopia -- The Economic Cost of Myopia: A Burden-of-Disease Study -- i. Prevalence of myopia -- China -- India -- Europe.
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Additional Edition:
9789812832979
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 9789812832979
Language:
English
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