Nutrition and cataract in low-income Mexicans: Experience in an Eye Camp

Archivos Latinoamericanos de Nutricion

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 113-121

  Sánchez Castillo, Claudia P ^a   Lara, José ^a   Romero Keith, José ^a   Castorena, Guillermo ^a   Villa, Antonio R ^a   López, Norma ^a   Pedraza, José ^a   Medina, Omar ^a   Rodríguez, Carolina ^a   Medina, Federico Chávez Peón ^a   James, W Philip T ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

tocopherol; Carotene; Cataract; Low income; Nutrition; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; BETA CAROTENE; CAROTENOID;

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; BLOOD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POVERTY; REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL; ANTHROPOMETRY; BETA CAROTENE; CAROTENOIDS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POVERTY;

EID: 0035376517     PISSN: 00040622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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