Influencing factors associated with high myopia in Chinese college students.

ABSTRACT:

Background

High myopia (HM) may elicit irreversible pathological changes in the fundus and severely impair visual quality, thereby becoming a major public health issue in China. However, the influencing factors associated with HM remain unknown in Chinese college students, whose visual quality is crucial to country development.

Methods

This is a cross-sectional observational study. Two thousand three hundred and fifteen undergraduate and graduate students were initially recruited from various majors in 3 universities in Tianjin, China. Under the principle of voluntary participation and informed consent, simple random sampling was conducted in the recruited subjects while maintaining balanced number of subjects from each major. After screening with inclusion and exclusion cri

SUBMITTER: Zhang W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10326280 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature