Prevalence and associated factors of myopia in children and adolescents in Russia: the Ural Children Eye Study.
Mukharram M BikbovGyulli M KazakbaevaAlbina A FakhretdinovaAzaliia M TuliakovaEllina M IakupovaSonghomitra Panda-JonasLeisan I GilemzianovaLiana A GaripovaDinar A KhakimovLiaisan I IslamovaJost Bruno JonasPublished in: The British journal of ophthalmology (2023)
In this ethnically mixed urban school children population from Russia, prevalence of any myopia (65.6%) and high myopia (4.6%) in children aged 17+ years was higher than in adult populations in the same region and it was lower than in East Asian school children, with similar associated factors.