Prevalence of lens opacities in Latinos: The Los Angeles Latino Eye Study

Ophthalmology

Volumn 111, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1449-1456

  Varma, Rohit ^a   Torres, Mina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; APHAKIA; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CHI SQUARE TEST; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; EVALUATION; EYE; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH PROGRAM; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LENS CAPSULE; LENS NUCLEUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOCULAR VISION; POPULATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOPHAKIA; SAMPLE; SLIT LAMP; UNITED STATES; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATARACT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; VISION DISORDERS; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS;

EID: 3442885930     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2004.01.024     Document Type: Article

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