Disparities in vision impairment among adults in the United States

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 18, Issue 2 SUPPL. 2, 2008, Pages

  Wilson, Carmen J ^a,b   Rust, George ^a   Levine, Robert ^a   Alema Mensah, Ernest ^a  

^a MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Ste 700   (United States)

Author keywords

Disparities; Impairment; Race; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RACE DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED STATES; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; ADOLESCENT; CAUCASIAN; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ETHNOLOGY; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION SURVEYS; PREVALENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UNITED STATES; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 52149103590     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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