Glaucoma and mortality in the Beijing Eye Study

Eye

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 434-438

  Xu, L ^a   Wang, Y X ^a   Jonas, J B ^a,b  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHINA; CHINESE; CLOSED ANGLE GLAUCOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLIT LAMP; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

EID: 40949126148     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: 14765454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.eye.6703072     Document Type: Article

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