Central corneal thickness in adult Chinese. Association with ocular and general parameters. The Beijing eye study

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 246, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 587-592

  Zhang, Haitao ^a   Xu, Liang ^a   Chen, Changxi ^a   Jonas, Jost B ^a,b  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Applanation tonometry; Central corneal thickness; Intraocular pressure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA THICKNESS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PNEUMOTONOMETRY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; SENSORY SYSTEM PARAMETERS; SEX DETERMINATION; SLIT LAMP; TONOMETRY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CHINA; CORNEA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; RURAL POPULATION; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TONOMETRY, OCULAR; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 41349122854     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-007-0760-9     Document Type: Article

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