Childhood blindness due to vitamin A deficiency in India: regional variations.
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Childhood blindness due to vitamin A deficiency in India: regional variations.
OBJECTIVES To investigate the importance of vitamin A deficiency as a cause of childhood blindness and severe visual impairment (SVI) in India. DESIGN AND SETTING Cross sectional survey of children with visual acuity less than 6/60 in the better eye (SVI/blindness), attending 22 schools for the blind in nine states of India. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Proportion of children with blindness or SVI ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.72.4.330