Causes of Low Vision and Blindness in Adult Latinos. The Los Angeles Latino Eye Study

Ophthalmology

Volumn 113, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1574-1582

  Cotter, Susan A ^a   Varma, Rohit ^a   Ying Lai, Mei ^a   Azen, Stanley P ^a   Klein, Ronald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; DATA ANALYSIS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOPIA; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPTIC DISK; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; UNITED STATES; VISION TEST; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; AGED; BLINDNESS; CATARACT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; VISION, LOW; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 33747883812     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2006.05.002     Document Type: Article

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