Prevalence of visual impairment, blindness, ocular disorders and cataract surgery outcomes in low-income elderly from a metropolitan region of São Paulo - Brazil;Prevalência de cegueira, deficiência visual e alterações oculares numa população idosa e de baixa renda na cidade de São Paulo

Arquivos Brasileiros de Oftalmologia

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 246-253

  Filho, Arnaud Araújo ^a   Salomão, Solange Rios ^a   Berezovsky, Adriana ^a   Cinoto, Rafael Werneck ^a   Ávila Morales, Paulo Henrique ^a   Gonçalves Santos, Francisco Roberto ^a   Belfort Jr , Rubens ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aged; Blindness epidemiology; Brazil; Cataract epidemiology; Refractive errors epidemiology; Visual disorders epidemiology

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; BRAZIL; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT; PHYSIOLOGY; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLINDNESS; BRAZIL; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; URBAN POPULATION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS;

EID: 58149393164     PISSN: 00042749     EISSN: 16782925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0004-27492008000200021     Document Type: Article

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