Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Age-related Macular Degeneration: The Los Angeles Latino Eye Study

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 145, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 308-316

  Fraser Bell, Samantha ^a,b   Wu, Joanne ^a   Klein, Ronald ^c   Azen, Stanley P ^a   Hooper, Claire ^b   Foong, Athena W P ^a   Varma, Rohit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EYE BLOOD FLOW; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; OBESITY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; STEREOMICROSCOPY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LOS ANGELES; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 38349126811     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2007.10.007     Document Type: Article

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