BMI and retinal vascular caliber in children

Obesity

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 209-

  Cheung, Ning ^a,b   Saw, Seang Mei ^c,d   Islam, F M Amirul ^a   Rogers, Sophie L ^a   Shankar, Anoop ^d   De Haseth, Kristin ^a   Mitchell, Paul ^e   Wong, Tien Yin ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arteriole; BMI; Retinal; Singapore cohort study of risk factors for myopia; Venule

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846883513     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2007.576     Document Type: Article

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