Fateme Alipour, Hassan Hashemi, Alireza Lashay, Fatemeh Jafari, Nazgol Motamed-Gorji, Mahmoud Jabbarvand Behrouz, Mohammad Mirzaei, Yousef Alizade, Mohammad Reza Soleymani, Mohammad Reza Shoja, Kourosh Shahraki, Gholam Reza Khataminia, Hossein Poustchi, Reza Malekzadeh
BACKGROUND: To report the study protocol, methodology and latest enrollment data of a large epidemiological multi-central eye cohort named PERSIAN Eye Cohort Study (PECS), originating from the ongoing PERSIAN Cohort Study, to investigate the distribution of ophthalmic disorders in different regions and ethnicities of Iran, and determine their associations with various exposures of ophthalmic and non-ophthalmic nature. METHODS: A central committee designed the study and equipped six chosen centers (Khameneh, Some'e Sara, Hoveizeh, Yazd, Rafsanjan and Zahedan)...
August 1, 2023: Archives of Iranian Medicine