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Prevalence of uncorrected refractive errors among children aged 3-10 years in western Saudi Arabia

Nojood Hameed R. Alrahili, Esraa S. Jadidy, Bayan Sulieman H. Alahmadi, Mohammed F. Abdula’al, Alaa S. Jadidy, Abdulaziz A. Alhusaini, Moaz A. Mojaddidi and Maan A. Al-Barry
Saudi Medical Journal August 2017, 38 (8) 804-810; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2017.8.20412
Nojood Hameed R. Alrahili
From the Department of Medicine and Surgery (Alrahili, Jadidy, Jadidy), Department of Ophthalmology (Alahmadi, Abdula’al), the Department of Physiology (Mojaddidi), the Department of Ophthalmology (Al-Barry), Taibah University, Medina, Department of Emergency Medicine (Alhusaini), National Guard Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Esraa S. Jadidy
From the Department of Medicine and Surgery (Alrahili, Jadidy, Jadidy), Department of Ophthalmology (Alahmadi, Abdula’al), the Department of Physiology (Mojaddidi), the Department of Ophthalmology (Al-Barry), Taibah University, Medina, Department of Emergency Medicine (Alhusaini), National Guard Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Bayan Sulieman H. Alahmadi
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Mohammed F. Abdula’al
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Alaa S. Jadidy
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Abdulaziz A. Alhusaini
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Moaz A. Mojaddidi
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vol. 38 no. 8 804-810
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2017.8.20412
PubMed 
28762432

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received March 7, 2017
  • Accepted May 23, 2017
  • Published online August 1, 2017.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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  1. Nojood Hameed R. Alrahili, MBBS⇑,
  2. Esraa S. Jadidy, MBBS,
  3. Bayan Sulieman H. Alahmadi, MD (Ophtha),
  4. Mohammed F. Abdula’al, MD (Ophtha),
  5. Alaa S. Jadidy, MBBS,
  6. Abdulaziz A. Alhusaini, MD (Emerg Med),
  7. Moaz A. Mojaddidi, MD (Physiology) and
  8. Maan A. Al-Barry, MD FRCS (Ophtha)
  1. From the Department of Medicine and Surgery (Alrahili, Jadidy, Jadidy), Department of Ophthalmology (Alahmadi, Abdula’al), the Department of Physiology (Mojaddidi), the Department of Ophthalmology (Al-Barry), Taibah University, Medina, Department of Emergency Medicine (Alhusaini), National Guard Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Nojood Hameed R. Alrahili, Department of Medicine and Surgery, Taibah University, Medina, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: ndhda{at}hotmail.com ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0002-8253-2005
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