Time to raise awareness of blindness as another smoking-related condition

Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 379-380

  Handa, Swati ^a   Eong, Kah Guan Au ^a,b,c,d  

^a ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^d TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLINDNESS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH SURVEY; LETTER; PREVALENCE; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RISK FACTOR; SINGAPORE; SMOKING; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

EID: 33745649362     PISSN: 03044602     EISSN: 29724066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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