Refractive status and the 5-year incidence of age-related maculopathy: The Blue Mountains Eye Study

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 255-258

  Wang, Jie Jin ^a   Jakobsen, Kirsten B ^a   Smith, Wayne ^b   Mitchell, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Age related maculopathy; Blue Mountains Eye Study; Incidence; Population based cohort; Refractive error

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MYOPIA; POPULATION RESEARCH; REFRACTION ERROR; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STEREOSCOPIC VISION; URBAN POPULATION; VISUAL ACUITY; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION;

FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; REFRACTION, OCULAR; REFRACTIVE ERRORS;

EID: 3142632206     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2004.00813.x     Document Type: Article

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