The prevalence and types of glaucoma in Malay people: The Singapore Malay eye study

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 3846-3851

  Shen, Sunny Y ^a,b   Wong, Tien Y ^a,b,c,d   Foster, Paul J ^e,f   Loo, Jing Liang ^a,b   Rosman, Mohamad ^a,b   Loon, Seng Chee ^g   Wong, Wan Ling ^b   Saw, Seang Mei ^b,c   Aung, Tin ^a,b,c  

^a SINGAPORE NATIONAL EYE CENTRE   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^g NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BIOMICROSCOPY; BLINDNESS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLOSED ANGLE GLAUCOMA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ETHNICITY; EYE; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; GLAUCOMA; GOLDMANN APPLANATION TONOMETRY; GONIOSCOPY; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAYSIA; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPTIC DISK; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECONDARY GLAUCOMA; SEX RATIO; SINGAPORE; SLIT LAMP; TONOMETRY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL FIELD; CLASSIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA, ANGLE-CLOSURE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SEX RATIO; SINGAPORE;

EID: 53149121028     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.08-1759     Document Type: Article

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