Prevalence and causes of visual impairment according to World Health Organization and United States criteria in an aged, urban scandinavian population: The Copenhagen City Eye Study

Ophthalmology

Volumn 108, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 2347-2357

  Buch, Helena ^a   Vinding, Troels ^a   Nielsen, Niels Vesti ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOPIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SCANDINAVIA; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATARACT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENMARK; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; VISION, LOW; VISUAL ACUITY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0035190279     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0161-6420(01)00823-5     Document Type: Article

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