Associations between chronic kidney disease and age-related macular degeneration

Ophthalmic Epidemiology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 181-186

  Nitsch, Dorothea ^a   Evans, Jennifer ^a   Roderick, Paul J ^b   Smeeth, Liam ^a   Fletcher, Astrid E ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age related macular degeneration; Chronic kidney disease; Glomerular filtration rate; Proteinuria; Renal disease

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RISK FACTOR; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; PATIENT; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; VISUAL DISORDER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; PROTEINURIA; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS;

EID: 67149117125     PISSN: 09286586     EISSN: 17445086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09286580902863064     Document Type: Article

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