Do multiple families alter estimates of risk for age-related cataract in a population-based study? The Beaver Dam Eye Study

Ophthalmic Epidemiology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 97-106

  Klein, Barbara E K ^a,b   Klein, Ronald ^a   Lee, Kristine E ^a   Moore, Emily L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Age related cataract; Beaver Dam Eye Study; Cataract epidemiology; Genetic factors; Multiple families; Population based studies; Risk estimates

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CATARACT; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; HEREDITY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CATARACT; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENETIC LOAD; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; WISCONSIN;

EID: 0037386322     PISSN: 09286586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/opep.10.2.97.13896     Document Type: Article

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