Seang Mei Saw

..To describe the prevalence of menopausal symptoms, define the mean age of menopause, and determine contributory factors, which influence the experience of symptoms among Singaporean women of different racial groups...

..To determine the risk factors of incident myopia in a school-based cohort study in Singaporean children...

..To examine the relation between exposure to passive parental smoke and myopia in Chinese children in Singapore...

..To assess the interventions to treat acute angle closure (AAC) and primary angle closure (PAC) with or without glaucomatous optic neuropathy...

..To determine the prevalence rates and major contributing causes of low vision and blindness in adults in a rural setting in Indonesia..

..Increasing the awareness of osteoporosis and its risk factors may be essential in efforts to decrease the incidence of this disease...

..The time from onset of symptoms to presentation at the clinic was noted...

..To ascertain the utility values of myopic teenage students in Singapore...

..To examine the risk factors for variations in ocular biometry parameters in Singapore Chinese children, a population with a known high prevalence rate of myopia at an early age...

..To evaluate the association between intelligence and myopia in children...

..To compare the prevalences of refractive errors in Malay, Chinese and Indian children in Malaysia and Singapore...

..To study the prevalence of undercorrected refractive error and associated sociodemographic factors among Singaporean Chinese adults...

..To evaluate the various surgical interventions available for uncomplicated rhegmatogenous retinal detachment...

..To evaluate the association between school performance and myopia in Singapore children...

..To evaluate utility values in Chinese glaucoma patients...

..To assess the longitudinal changes in biometric parameters and associated factors in young myopic children aged 7--9 years followed prospectively in Singapore...

..The ocular risks associated with myopia should not be underestimated and there is a public health need to prevent the onset or progression of myopia...

..To evaluate the specific contact lens-related or other factors that may contribute to the outbreak of Fusarium keratitis...

..To examine the relationships of diabetes with anterior chamber depth, axial length, and refraction...

..To determine the incidence and progression rates of myopia in young Singaporean children...

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..To determine the prevalence rates of myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism, and anisometropia in a prevalence survey of adults in Sumatra, Indonesia...

..Numerous scientists have noted a relationship between close-up work and myopia...

..To determine the relationship of nearwork and myopia in young elementary school-age children in Singapore...

..A hospital-based case-control study, designed to evaluate the risk factors for the development of pterygium in Singapore...

..Familial factors may be related to the progression of myopia in children. A cohort study was conducted to determine the relationship between familial factors and myopia progression in children...

..This review summarises the evidence for environmental and genetic factors as well as gene-environment interaction for myopia for both epidemiologic studies as well as animal models...

..To examine the possible factors related to the progression of myopia in Singapore children...

..The main practical problems encountered in the initiation, design, conduct and completion of both investigator-initiated and sponsor-initiated phase III clinical drug trials will be reviewed...

..To determine the relation of refractive error to environmental factors, including close up work, in Singapore military conscripts...

..The purpose of this study was to examine whether close-up work was related to myopia in Singapore kindergarten children...

..Meanwhile, preventive measures such as protection of the eyes by the wearing of sunglasses with UV B protective lenses and brimmed hats outdoors are recommended...

..To evaluate the efficacy of interventions such as eyedrops, bifocal lenses, or contact lenses in retarding the progression of myopia in myopic children...

..To develop measures and indices of factors (distance of eye from object, posture, and lighting) that may modify a possible effect of near work activity on myopia...

..To investigate the relationship among near-work activity, night-lights, and myopia in schoolchildren in Singapore and Xiamen, China...

..To examine the association between the anthropometric measurements of height, weight, body mass index (BMI) and refraction and other ocular parameters in Singapore Chinese children...

..To identify the predictors of visual outcomes (visual acuity and visual function) in cataract surgery patients in Singapore and compare the visual outcomes of phacoemulsification and extracapsular cataract extraction (ECCE)...

..Work and related activities may be connected to myopia development and progression. We investigated the relationship between working activities and the onset as well as worsening of myopia...

..To examine the role of night time lighting and myopia in children in Singapore..

..To examine the association between body fatness indices and retinal vascular calibre in Singapore Chinese children...

..05 for all SES variables). Lower SES was positively associated with overweight/obesity in Malay women, and the association was in the opposite direction in Malay men...

..To describe the rationale and study design of a follow-up epidemiological eye study among Singaporean Malay adults...

..This highlights the potential role of variants in PDGFRA in the genetic etiology of corneal astigmatism across diverse Asian populations...

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..In this context, we examined the relationship between BMI and CKD, by gender, in a study of Malay adults from Singapore...

..Nearly 1 in 5 middle-aged Malay adults living in a developed Asian society had diabetes mellitus and a substantial proportion had suboptimal glycemic control...

..To describe and compare ocular component growth curves among different refractive error groups in Singaporean children...

..Elevated blood pressure is associated with a range of retinal arteriolar changes in pregnant women, providing evidence for an impact of blood pressure on the microcirculation during pregnancy...

..To estimate the effects of maternal body mass index (BMI) and pregnancy weight gain on the retinal microvasculature among pregnant women...

..Retinal venular diameter was not associated with chronic kidney disease. These data suggest that retinal arteriolar narrowing is associated with chronic kidney disease, independent of diabetes and hypertension...

..To assess if natural genetic variation in hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) is associated with altered retinal vessel diameter...

..To systematically examine the association between ocular biometry and retinal vascular caliber in Singapore Chinese preschoolers aged 48 to 72 months...

..To report the prevalence rates of anisometropia in a school population and determine the relative contribution of refractive power and axial length to the measured anisometropia...

..Eyes with myopia may be less likely to develop diabetic retinopathy (DR). The relationship between refractive error, ocular biometry, and DR therefore was investigated...

..To investigate the risk factors for myopia, including near work and outdoor activity, in Singapore Chinese preschool children...

..We aimed to determine the relationship between puberty and growth spurts with peak spherical equivalent (SE) or axial length (AL) velocity in Singapore schoolchildren...

..To assess the influence of factors related to migration and acculturation on myopia in migrant Indians in Singapore...

..To determine the impact of cataracts and their types and grades on vision-specific functioning...

..To examine the relationship between refractive error and optic disc topographic parameters and retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness...

..To determine the impact of visual impairment on health-related quality of life (QoL) measures in adolescents...

..To describe the prevalence and risk factors for myopia and other refractive errors in an urban Malay population in Singapore...

..To determine the prevalence and risk factors for refractive errors in middle-aged to elderly Singaporeans of Indian ethnicity...

..However, this hypothesis has not been examined in populations from newly industrialized Asian countries. We evaluated the association between SES and micro/macroalbuminuria in a population-based sample in Singapore...

..This study aimed to examine the association between BP and retinal vascular caliber in Singapore Chinese preschoolers 4 to 5 years of age...

..However, the association in other East Asian populations is less well characterized...

..The prevalence of myopia (73.9%) in Singapore teenagers is high. Current reading and writing habits, reading at close distances and a better educational stream are possible risk factors for myopia...

..To determine the testability of several vision and refraction tests in preschool-aged children...

..To evaluate the possible associations between dietary factors and myopia...

..This study summarizes the rationale and study design of a population-based study of eye diseases among adult Malays in Singapore...

..The aim of this study was to examine the effects of FTO variants on obesity and type 2 diabetes in Southeast Asian populations...

..To determine whether presenting distance visual acuity is related to subsequent academic school performance in Singaporean children between 9 to 10 years of age...

..In this context, we examined the association between socioeconomic status and overweight/obesity by gender in Chinese adults in Singapore...

..Few data are available from Asian populations. The purpose of the present study was therefore to evaluate the association between breast-feeding and overweight/obesity in a study of 10-12-year-old children in Singapore...

..To identify factors associated with raised alanine transaminase, aspartate transaminase, and gamma-glutaryl transferase in severely obese children..

..We conducted a case-control study examining homocyst(e)ine, vitamin B12, and folate levels in young, first-ever Asian ischemic stroke patients...

..CONCLUSIONS: In children, increasing axial myopia was associated with reduced macular volume and thickness. These findings suggest that early anatomic changes may be present in the retinas of children with axial myopia...

..CONCLUSION: The prevalence of classical menopausal symptoms in the local population was low compared with studies on Caucasian women. The mean age of menopause was 49.1 years. This is consistent with findings of other Asian studies...

..Future research is needed to identify specific modifiable lifestyle factors and genetic markers for myopia. This will enable preventive measures such as health education to be instituted...

..Cataract surgery patients with lower utilities tended to have worse visual function and greater difficulty seeing in bright light...

..In this paper, utility values of myopic medical students in Singapore were ascertained as a first step to deriving weights for quality adjustment in future cost-effectiveness studies of such technologies...

..This study examined the prevalence rate of astigmatism and its epidemiological risk factors in Singapore school children...

..1% and 0.5%, respectively. Glaucoma is a leading cause of blindness in Singaporean Chinese adults, in addition to well-recognized causes in the rest of Asia such as cataract...

..To examine the optimal cutoff point for the use of the visual acuity test to screen for refractive errors in schoolchildren...

..To examine the baseline retina and optic disk characteristics in children...

..To describe the prevalence and causes of low vision and blindness in a Malay population...

..A secondary aim is to estimate the best cutoff values for the detection of refractive errors using these two methods...

..This study investigated the incidence and progression, as well as factors associated with changes in astigmatism in school children...

..The Retinomax autorefractor is not recommended for research purposes, unless in remote inaccessible areas where a portable instrument is necessary and cycloplegia is not possible...

..Health marketing communications and public policy implications are discussed...

..To examine the relationship between visual acuity and mortality in a Chinese population...

..To examine the relationship of diabetes and hyperglycemia with central corneal thickness (CCT) in Malay adults in Singapore...

..77 per 1000, 95% CI: 1.78-4.17) (p=0.08). No Malays with ET were identified. The data suggest that the prevalence of ET increases with age, is higher in males and may be higher amongst Indians...

..To compare the prevalence and risk factors for myopia in 6- and 7-year-old children of Chinese ethnicity in Sydney and Singapore...

..To describe the prevalence of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in an Asian Malay population...

..To assess the prevalence and types of glaucoma in an Asian Malay population...

..To determine corneal biomechanical parameters measured with the Reichert Ocular Response Analyser (ORA) in Singaporean children, and to assess their possible correlations with refractive error and biometry...

..To describe the distribution and determinants of the optic cup to disc ratio (CDR) in Malay adults in Singapore...

..To examine the association of time spent in near work and reading with spherical equivalent refraction (SER) in a population-based sample of 12-year-old Australian schoolchildren...

..7 microg/m3, 6.3 microg/m3) and Pelalawan (26.1 microg/m3, 4.7 microg/m3). CONCLUSIONS: The higher prevalence of respiratory symptoms in Kerinci and SP7 could be the result of higher PM10 and hydrocarbon levels in these locations...