Prevalence of Age-related Macular Degeneration in Greece: The Thessaloniki Eye Study

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 142, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1076-1079

  Topouzis, Fotis ^a   Coleman, Anne L ^b   Harris, Alon ^c   Anastasopoulos, Eleftherios ^a   Yu, Fei ^b   Koskosas, Archimidis ^a   Pappas, Theofanis ^a   Mavroudis, Leonidas ^a   Wilson, M Roy ^d  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE REGISTRY; FEMALE; GENDER; GREECE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA NEOVASCULARIZATION; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 33845229861     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2006.07.042     Document Type: Article

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