Relationships between ocular dimensions and adult stature among participants in the Reykjavik Eye Study

Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 734-738

  Eysteinsson, Thor ^a   Jonasson, Fridbert ^a   Arnarsson, Ársæll ^a   Sasaki, Hiroshi ^b   Sasaki, Kazuyuki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adult stature; Axial length; Chamber depth; Lens thickness; Ocular dimension; Optic disc measurements

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER DEPTH; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CAUCASIAN; CORNEA CURVATURE; EYE FUNDUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ICELAND; KERATOMETRY; LENS; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTOMETRY; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; VITREOUS BODY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BODY HEIGHT; EYE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ICELAND; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 29244473857     PISSN: 13953907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0420.2005.00540.x     Document Type: Article

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