Baseline cataract type and 10-year mortality in the Italian-American case-control study of age-related cataract

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 156, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 127-131

  Williams, Sally L ^a   Ferrigno, Luigina ^b   Mora, Paolo ^a   Rosmini, Francesco ^b   Maraini, Giovanni ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aging; Cataract; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ETHNICITY; HEALTH RISK; HEALTH SERVICES; MORTALITY;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; RISK FACTOR; SLIT LAMP;

AGED; AGING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CATARACT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UNITED STATES;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037100403     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwf012     Document Type: Article

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