Prevalence of glaucoma in a South Brazilian population: Projeto glaucoma

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 4974-4979

  Sakata, Kenji ^a   Sakata, Lisandro M ^a   Sakata, Viviane M ^a   Santini, Cintia ^a   Hopker, Luisa M ^a   Bernardes, Ricardo ^a   Yabumoto, Cristina ^a   Moreira, Ana T R ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CAUCASIAN; CLOSED ANGLE GLAUCOMA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC DISK; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SCREENING TEST; SELF REPORT; SLIT LAMP; TONOMETRY; UNILATERAL BLINDNESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; PREVALENCE; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAZIL; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, ANGLE-CLOSURE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; PREVALENCE; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 38449106691     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.07-0342     Document Type: Article

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