Characteristics of cataracts in the Chinese singaporean

Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 16-23

  Sasaki, Hiroshi ^a   Shui, Ying Bo ^a   Kojima, Masami ^a   Chew, Sek Jin ^a   Ono, Masaji ^a   Katoh, Nobuyo ^a   Cheng, Hong Ming ^a   Takahashi, Nobuo ^a   Sasaki, Kazuyuki ^a  

^a KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHINA; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SINGAPORE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATARACT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SINGAPORE;

EID: 0009809744     PISSN: 09175040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2188/jea.11.16     Document Type: Article

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