Number of perifoveal vessels in aging, hypertension, and atherosclerosis: The Rotterdam study

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1049-1053

  Ibrahim, Youhanna W M ^a,b   Bots, Michiel L ^c   Mulder, Paul G H ^a   Grobbee, Diederick E ^c   Hofman, Albert ^a   De Jong, Paulus T V M ^a,d,e  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^e ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA FOVEA; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; AGING; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; RETINAL VESSELS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0031965825     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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