Blindness, visual impairment and the problem of uncorrected refractive error in a Mexican-American population: Proyecto VER

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 608-614

  Muñoz, Beatriz ^a   West, Sheila K ^a   Rodriguez, Jorge ^a   Sanchez, Rosario ^a   Broman, Aimee T ^a   Snyder, Robert ^a   Klein, Ronald ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; EDUCATION PROGRAM; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RACE DIFFERENCE; REFRACTION ERROR; SAMPLE SIZE; UNITED STATES; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARIZONA; BLINDNESS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0036190418     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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