Plasma and erythrocyte zinc concentrations in elderly patients with and without senile cataract in a tertiary eye care center at Teresina-Piauí;Concentrações plasmáticas e eritrocitárias de zinco em idosos portadores e não-portadores de catarata senil em um serviço oftalmológico especializado de Teresina-Piauí

Arquivos Brasileiros de Oftalmologia

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 674-678

  Soares, Fábio Martins ^a   do Nascimento Nogueira, Nadir ^b   do Nascimento Marreiro, Dilina ^b   de Carvalho, Cecilia Maria Resende Goncalves ^b   do Monte, Semiramis Jamil Hadad ^b   Neto, José Machado Moita ^b   de Sousa Rocha, Viviane ^b   Cardoso, Bárbara Verônica Sousa ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DO PIAUÍ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PIAUÍ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aged; Cataract; Nutritional status; Zinc deficiency; Zinc blood

Indexed keywords

ZINC;

AGED; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BLOOD; CATARACT; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATARACT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; ZINC;

EID: 68949116414     PISSN: 00042749     EISSN: 16782925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0004-27492008000500012     Document Type: Article

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