Prevalence of age-related macular degeneration in 4 racial/ethnic groups in the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis

Ophthalmology

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 373-380

  Klein, Ronald ^a,g   Klein, Barbara E K ^a   Knudtson, Michael D ^a   Wong, Tien Yin ^b   Cotch, Mary Frances ^c   Liu, Kiang ^d   Burke, Gregory ^e   Saad, Mohammed F ^f   Jacobs Jr , David R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VISUAL PIGMENT;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BODY MASS; CAMERA; CAUCASIAN; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUSEN; ETHNIC GROUP; EYE FUNDUS; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SMOKING;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PUPIL; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 33644541748     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2005.12.013     Document Type: Article

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