Incidence of Age-Related Cataract over a 15-Year Interval. The Beaver Dam Eye Study

Ophthalmology

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 477-482

  Klein, Barbara E K ^a   Klein, Ronald ^a   Lee, Kristine E ^a   Gangnon, Ronald E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CAMERA; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORTICAL CATARACT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LENS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MYDRIASIS; NUCLEAR CATARACT; PHOTOGRAPHY; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLIT LAMP; SUBCAPSULAR CATARACT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOGRAPHY; SEX DISTRIBUTION; WISCONSIN;

EID: 39749191317     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2007.11.024     Document Type: Article

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