Lens Opacities Associated with Performance-Based and Self-Assessed Visual Functions

Ophthalmology

Volumn 113, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1257-1263

  Klein, Barbara E K ^a   Klein, Ronald ^a   Knudtson, Michael D ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATARACT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LENS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF EVALUATION; VISION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CATARACT; COHORT STUDIES; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MIDDLE AGED; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VISION; VISION TESTS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 33746289548     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2006.03.058     Document Type: Article

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