Cause-specific visual impairment and mortality: Results from a population-based study of older people in the United Kingdom

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 123, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1397-1403

  Thiagarajan, Manickam ^a   Evans, Jennifer R ^a   Smeeth, Liam ^a   Wormald, Richard P L ^b   Fletcher, Astrid E ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REFRACTION ERROR; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLE SIZE; SCREENING TEST; SEX RATIO; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS;

EID: 26444506788     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 00039950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archopht.123.10.1397     Document Type: Article

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