Nine-year Incidence of Visual Impairment in the Barbados Eye Studies

Ophthalmology

Volumn 116, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1461-1468

  Hennis, Anselm J ^a,b,c   Wu, Suh Yuh ^a   Nemesure, Barbara ^a   Hyman, Leslie ^a   Schachat, Andrew P ^d   Leske, M Cristina ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Ministry of Health Barbados   (Barbados)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BARBADOS; BLINDNESS; CATARACT; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOM SAMPLE; REPEAT PROCEDURE; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SEX RATIO; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BARBADOS; BLINDNESS; EYE DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; VISION, LOW; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 68049144656     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2009.02.017     Document Type: Article

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