Prevalence and associations of epiretinal membranes in a rural Chinese adult population: The handan eye study

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2018-2023

  Duan, Xin Rong ^a   Liang, Yuan Bo ^a,b   Friedman, David S ^c,d   Sun, Lan Ping ^b   Wei, Wen Bin ^a   Wang, Jie Jin ^e,f   Wang, Guang Lu ^a   Liu, Wu ^a   Tao, Qiu Shan ^g   Wang, Ning Li ^a   Wong, Tien Yin ^e,h,i  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Handan Eye Hospital   (China)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^g PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^h SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

ⁱ NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CELLOPHANE MACULAR REFLEX; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; LENS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOPIA; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRERETINAL MACULAR FIBROSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RURAL AREA; SCORING SYSTEM; SMOKING; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHINA; CLINICAL TRIAL; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHINA; EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 65549125485     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.08-2624     Document Type: Article

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