Temporal trends in frequency, type and severity of myopia and associations with key environmental risk factors in the UK: Findings from the UK Biobank Study

• Phillippa M. Cumberland ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Phillippa M. Cumberland, Jugnoo S. Rahi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Population, Policy and Practice Research and Teaching Department, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom, Ulverscroft Vision Research Group, Ulverscroft Foundation, Leicester, United Kingdom

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• Vasiliki Bountziouka,

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Population, Policy and Practice Research and Teaching Department, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom, Ulverscroft Vision Research Group, Ulverscroft Foundation, Leicester, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2522-1582

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• Christopher J. Hammond,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, King’s College London, St Thomas’ Hospital Campus, London, United Kingdom, Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King’s College London, St Thomas’ Hospital Campus, London, United Kingdom

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• Pirro G. Hysi,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, King’s College London, St Thomas’ Hospital Campus, London, United Kingdom

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• Jugnoo S. Rahi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Phillippa M. Cumberland, Jugnoo S. Rahi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: j.rahi@ucl.ac.uk

  Affiliations Population, Policy and Practice Research and Teaching Department, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom, Ulverscroft Vision Research Group, Ulverscroft Foundation, Leicester, United Kingdom, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5718-9209

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• on behalf of the UK Biobank Eye and Vision Consortium

  ¶Membership of the UK Biobank Eye and Vision Consortium is provided on their website: https://www.ukbiobankeyeconsortium.org.uk/people.

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