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Letters
On the Plausible Association Between Environmental Conditions and Human Eye Damage
Elias Feretis; Panagiotis Theodorakopulos; Costas Varotsos; Maria Efstathiou; Christos Tzanis; Tzina Xirou; Nancy Alexandridou; Michael Aggelou
Corresponding author:: Prof. Dr. Costas A. Varotsos, University of Athens, Dept. of Applied Physics, 33 Ippokratous Str., 106 80 Athens, GREECE
The increase in solar ultraviolet radiation can have various
direct and indirect effects on human health, like the incidence
of ocular damage. Data of eye damage in residents of three suburban
regions in Greece and in two groups of monks/nuns and
fishermen are examined here. The statistics performed on these
data provides new information about the plausible association
between increased levels of solar ultraviolet radiation, air-pollution
at ground level, and the development of ocular defects. | | Keywords: air pollution; eye damages; ocular defects, solar ultraviolet radiation |
9 ESPR (3) 163-165 (2002)
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