Retinal microvascular abnormalities and age-related hearing loss: The blue mountains hearing study

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 394-401

  Liew, Gerald ^a   Wong, Tien Yin ^b,c   Mitchell, Paul ^a   Newall, Philip ^d   Smith, Wayne ^e   Wang, Jie Jin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROANGIOPATHY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PHOTOGRAPHY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROBABILITY; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RETINA ARTERY; RETINA ARTERY OCCLUSION; RETINOPATHY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGING; ARTERIOLES; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; RETINAL ARTERY; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 34248223140     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e3180479388     Document Type: Article

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