Awareness of Incident Open-angle Glaucoma in a Population Study. The Barbados Eye Studies

Ophthalmology

Volumn 114, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1816-1821

  Hennis, Anselm ^a,b,c   Wu, Suh Yuh ^c   Nemesure, Barbara ^c   Honkanen, Robert ^c   Leske, M Cristina ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b Ministry of Health Barbados   (Barbados)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AWARENESS; BARBADOS; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 34748860498     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2007.06.013     Document Type: Article

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