Incidence of open-angle glaucoma in a general elderly population: The Rotterdam Study

Ophthalmology

Volumn 112, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1487-1493

  De Voogd, Simone ^a   Ikram, M Kamran ^a   Wolfs, Roger C W ^a   Jansonius, Nomdo M ^b   Hofman, Albert ^a   De Jong, Paulus T V M ^a,c,d  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERIATRICS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NETHERLANDS; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPTIC DISK; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL FIELD; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 24944463384     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2005.04.018     Document Type: Article

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