Variations in primary open-angle glaucoma prevalence by age, gender, and race: A Bayesian meta-analysis

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 4254-4261

  Rudnicka, Alicja R ^a   Mt Isa, Shahrul ^b   Owen, Christopher G ^a   Cook, Derek G ^a   Ashby, Deborah ^b  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BAYES THEOREM; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL TRIAL; CREDIBLE INTERVAL; EMBASE; EYE EXAMINATION; GENDER; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; NEGRO; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RACE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VISUAL FIELD; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BAYES THEOREM; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 33750603123     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.06-0299     Document Type: Article

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