Five-year refractive changes in an adult population: Reykjavik eye study

Ophthalmology

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 672-677

  Gudmundsdottir, Elinborg ^a   Arnarsson, Arsaell ^a   Jonasson, Fridbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CATARACT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EYE AXIS LENGTH; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; ICELAND; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KERATOMETRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MYOPIA; PATIENT SELECTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; REFRACTION ERROR; STANDARD; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CORNEA; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SEX RATIO;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASTIGMATISM; COHORT STUDIES; CORNEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPEROPIA; ICELAND; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; REFRACTION, OCULAR; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 16244371029     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2004.11.039     Document Type: Article

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