Five-year change in visual acuity and incidence of visual impairment: The Blue Mountains eye study

Ophthalmology

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 41-50

  Foran, Suriya ^b   Mitchell, Paul ^a   Wang, Jie Jin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOCULAR VISION; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; VISION DISORDERS; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS;

EID: 0037226664     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0161-6420(02)01295-2     Document Type: Article

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