Prevalence and Determinants of Angle Closure in Central Sri Lanka: The Kandy Eye Study

Ophthalmology

Volumn 116, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1444-1449

  Casson, Robert J ^a   Baker, Michelle ^a   Edussuriya, Kapila ^b   Senaratne, Tissa ^b   Selva, Dinesh ^a   Sennanayake, Saman ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b Kandy Centre for Save Sight   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER DEPTH; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; CLOSED ANGLE GLAUCOMA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EYE DISEASE; FEMALE; GONIOSCOPY; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LENS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OCULOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPTIC DISK; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM SAMPLE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SLIT LAMP; SRI LANKA; STEREOSCOPIC VISION; THICKNESS; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMETRY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, ANGLE-CLOSURE; GONIOSCOPY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SRI LANKA;

EID: 67949104885     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2009.03.005     Document Type: Article

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