Smoking and age-related macular degeneration

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 127, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 826-827

  Jonas, Jost B ^a   Xu, Liang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIGARETTE SMOKING; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; INCIDENCE; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 66949159434     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archophthalmol.2009.118     Document Type: Letter

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