Central Corneal Thickness and its Associations With Ocular and Systemic Factors: The Singapore Malay Eye Study

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 147, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Su, Daniel H W ^a   Wong, Tien Y ^a,b,c   Foster, Paul J ^d   Tay, Wan Ting ^a   Saw, Seang Mei ^a,b   Aung, Tin ^a,b  

^a SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER DEPTH; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CURVATURE; CORNEA THICKNESS; DIABETES MELLITUS; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAYSIA; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGAPORE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; URINALYSIS;

EID: 62649131589     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2008.10.013     Document Type: Article

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