Nuclear cataracts and nutrition: Hope for intervention early and late in life

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1531-1534

  Beebe, David C ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID;

CATARACT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; HUMAN; NUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUNLIGHT;

AGING; CATARACT; FEMALE; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; LENS NUCLEUS, CRYSTALLINE; MALE; NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 0031829279     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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