Relationship Between Intraocular Pressure and Primary Open Angle Glaucoma Among White and Black Americans: The Baltimore Eye Survey

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 109, Issue 8, 1991, Pages 1090-1095

  Sommer, Alfred ^a   Tielsch, James M ^a   Katz, Joanne ^a   Quigley, Harry A ^a   Gottsch, John D ^a   Javitt, Jonathan ^a   Singh, Kuldev ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEGRO; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPTIC NERVE LESION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

CAUCASOID RACE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MARYLAND; NEGROID RACE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0026409550     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archopht.1991.01080080050026     Document Type: Article

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