Is diabetes mellitus a risk factor or a protector for primary open angle glaucoma?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 233-234

  Özcura, Fatih ^a   Aydin, Sayime ^a  

^a DUMLUPINAR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLINDNESS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; LETTER; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPTIC NERVE LESION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TONOMETER;

CAUSALITY; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 34247638433     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2006.11.030     Document Type: Letter

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