Lens opacities and mortality: The Barbados Eye Studies

Ophthalmology

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 498-504

  Hennis, Anselm ^a,b   Wu, Suh Yuh ^b   Li, Xiaowei ^b   Nemesure, Barbara ^b   Leske, M Cristina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CATARACT; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEGRO; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLIT LAMP;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BARBADOS; CATARACT; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS;

EID: 0035112403     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0161-6420(00)00542-X     Document Type: Article

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