The occurrence and causes of registered blindness in diabetes patients in Århus County, Denmark

Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 526-530

  Jeppesen, Peter ^a   Bek, Toke ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Blindness; Diabetes mellitus; Diabetic maculopathy; Diabetic retinopathy; Epidemiology; Legal blindness; Proliferative diabetic retinopathy; Social blindness

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DENMARK; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA MACULOPATHY;

ADULT; AGED; BLINDNESS; DENMARK; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; HUMANS; MACULA LUTEA; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 6344228353     PISSN: 13953907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0420.2004.00313.x     Document Type: Article

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