Retinal vascular caliber, blood pressure, and cardiovascular risk factors in an asian population: The Singapore malay eye study

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1784-1790

  Sun, Cong ^a   Liew, Gerald ^b   Wang, Jie Jin ^a,b   Mitchell, Paul ^b   Saw, Seang Mei ^c,d   Aung, Tin ^d,e   Tai, E Shyong ^f   Wong, Tien Y ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^e SINGAPORE NATIONAL EYE CENTRE   (Singapore)

^f SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; GLUCOSE; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTERIOLE; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DYSLIPIDEMIA; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INCOME; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; SEX RATIO; SINGAPORE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VASOCONSTRICTION; VENULE; AGE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; ETHNOLOGY; HYPERTENSION; MALAYSIA; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; RETINA ARTERY; RETINA VEIN; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DYSLIPIDEMIAS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MALAYSIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOGRAPHY; RETINAL ARTERY; RETINAL VEIN; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SINGAPORE;

EID: 44649180095     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.07-1450     Document Type: Article

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