Risk Factors for Open-angle Glaucoma: The Barbados Eye Study

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 113, Issue 7, 1995, Pages 918-924

  Leske, M Cristina ^a   Connell, A M S ^b   Wu, Suh Yuh ^a   Hyman, Leslie G ^a   Schachat, Andrew P ^c  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Ministry of Health   (Barbados)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPTIC DISK ANOMALY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TONOMETRY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTHROPOMETRY; BARBADOS; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NEGROID RACE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TONOMETRY;

EID: 0028811242     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archopht.1995.01100070092031     Document Type: Article

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