Prevalence of Primary Open-angle Glaucoma in an Urban South Indian Population and Comparison with a Rural Population. The Chennai Glaucoma Study

Ophthalmology

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Vijaya, Lingam ^a   George, Ronnie ^a   Baskaran, M ^a   Arvind, Hemamalini ^a   Raju, Prema ^a   Ramesh, S Ve ^a   Kumaramanickavel, Govindasamy ^a   McCarty, Catherine ^b  

^a VISION RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (India)

^b MARSHFIELD CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA THICKNESS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; GONIOSCOPY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INDIA; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MYOPIA; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPTIC DISK; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PACHYMETRY; PERIMETRY; PHOTOGRAPHY; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM SAMPLE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; TONOMETRY; URBAN POPULATION; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; VISUAL FIELD;

EID: 41149160922     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2007.04.062     Document Type: Article

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