Prevalence and patterns of refractive errors among Nubian and Non-Nubian adults in South Egypt.
Background: Refractive errors are regarded as a public health challenge contributing to 123.7 million cases of moderate to severe distance vision impairment or blindness. Prevalence, pattern and degree of refractive errors affected by racial and ethnic variations. Nubians are an ethnic group indigen...
| Publicado en: | Discover Public Health Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 1 - 15 |
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Springer Nature
9/9/2025
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