Six Year Refractive Change among White Children and Young Adults: Evidence for Significant Increase in Myopia among White UK Children

Sara J. McCullough; Lisa O’Donoghue; Kathryn J. Saunders

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0146332

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Six Year Refractive Change among White Children and Young Adults: Evidence for Significant Increase in Myopia among White UK Children

Sara J. McCullough ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Sara J. McCullough, Lisa O’Donoghue, Kathryn J. Saunders

* E-mail: sj.mccullough@ulster.ac.uk

Affiliation Biomedical Sciences Research Institute, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster, Cromore Road, Coleraine, N. Ireland, United Kingdom
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Lisa O’Donoghue ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Sara J. McCullough, Lisa O’Donoghue, Kathryn J. Saunders

Affiliation Biomedical Sciences Research Institute, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster, Cromore Road, Coleraine, N. Ireland, United Kingdom
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Kathryn J. Saunders

Contributed equally to this work with: Sara J. McCullough, Lisa O’Donoghue, Kathryn J. Saunders

Affiliation Biomedical Sciences Research Institute, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster, Cromore Road, Coleraine, N. Ireland, United Kingdom
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Six Year Refractive Change among White Children and Young Adults: Evidence for Significant Increase in Myopia among White UK Children

Sara J. McCullough,
Lisa O’Donoghue,
Kathryn J. Saunders

Published: January 19, 2016
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0146332

About the Authors

Sara J. McCullough

Contributed equally to this work with: Sara J. McCullough, Lisa O’Donoghue, Kathryn J. Saunders

* E-mail: sj.mccullough@ulster.ac.uk

Affiliation Biomedical Sciences Research Institute, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster, Cromore Road, Coleraine, N. Ireland, United Kingdom

Lisa O’Donoghue

Contributed equally to this work with: Sara J. McCullough, Lisa O’Donoghue, Kathryn J. Saunders

Affiliation Biomedical Sciences Research Institute, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster, Cromore Road, Coleraine, N. Ireland, United Kingdom

Kathryn J. Saunders

Contributed equally to this work with: Sara J. McCullough, Lisa O’Donoghue, Kathryn J. Saunders

Affiliation Biomedical Sciences Research Institute, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster, Cromore Road, Coleraine, N. Ireland, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KJS LOD. Performed the experiments: SJM KJS LOD. Analyzed the data: SJM KJS LOD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SJM KJS LOD. Wrote the paper: SJM KJS LOD.

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