Hyperhomocysteinaemia: Risk of retinal vascular occlusion

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 4-5, 2004, Pages 633-639

  Yaghoubi, G H ^a   Madarshahian, F ^b   Mosavi, M ^c  

^a BIRJAND UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b BIRJAND UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMOCYSTEINE;

ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MALE; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; RETINA VEIN OCCLUSION; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTEMIC DISEASE;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FEMALE; HOMOCYSTEINE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; HYPERLIPIDEMIAS; HYPERTENSION; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETINAL VEIN OCCLUSION; RISK FACTORS; SAMPLE SIZE; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD;

EID: 28444463617     PISSN: 10203397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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