Familial aggregation of retinal vessel caliber in the Beaver Dam Eye Study

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 3929-3933

  Lee, Kristine E ^a,b   Klein, Barbara E K ^a   Klein, Ronald ^a   Knudtson, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIOLE; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE; RETINA ARTERY; RETINA VEIN; SIBLING; VEIN DIAMETER; VENULE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOGRAPHY; RETINAL DISEASES; RETINAL VESSELS; SIBLINGS; WISCONSIN;

EID: 6944239956     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.04-0462     Document Type: Article

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