Nine-year refractive changes in the Barbados Eye Studies

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 4032-4039

  Wu, Suh Yuh ^a   Yoo, Yun Joo ^a   Nemesure, Barbara ^a   Hennis, Anselm ^b,c   Leske, M Cristina ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Ministry of Health   (Barbados)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BARBADOS; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOPIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; CATARACT; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNOLOGY; EYE REFRACTION; FOLLOW UP; MIDDLE AGED; NEGRO; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BARBADOS; CATARACT; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; HYPEROPIA; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REFRACTION, OCULAR; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33644677819     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.05-0332     Document Type: Article

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