Prevalence of dry eye among adult Chinese in the Beijing Eye Study

Eye

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 688-693

  Jie, Y ^a   Xu, L ^a,c   Wu, Y Y ^a   Jonas, J B ^a,b,c  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c BEIJING INSTITUTE OF OPHTHALMOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Beijing Eye Study; Dry eye; Lid margin; Schirmer's test; Tear film break up

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CHINA; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; DRY EYE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEIBOMIAN GLAND; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFRACTION ERROR; SCHIRMER TEST; SLIT LAMP; TEAR FILM; URBAN AREA; AGE; COMPLICATION; DRY EYE SYNDROMES; HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHINA; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; DRY EYE SYNDROMES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 62549139156     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: 14765454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.eye.6703101     Document Type: Article

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