Distribution and associations of retinal vascular caliber with ethnicity, gender, and birth parameters in young children

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1018-1024

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERIOLE; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BIRTH; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHINESE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCOME; INDIAN; MALAYSIA; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; VENULE; BODY CONSTITUTION; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; HISTOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETINA ARTERY; RETINA VEIN; SINGAPORE;

ARTERIOLES; BODY CONSTITUTION; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTOGRAPHY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETINAL ARTERY; RETINAL VEIN; SEX FACTORS; SINGAPORE; VENULES;

EID: 34047259832     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.06-0978     Document Type: Article

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