Meta-analysis: Retinal vessel caliber and risk for coronary heart disease

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 151, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 404-413

  McGeechan, Kevin ^b   Liew, Gerald ^c   Macaskill, Petra ^b   Irwig, Les ^b   Klein, Ronald ^d   Klein, Barbara E K ^d   Wang, Jie Jin ^c   Mitchell, Paul ^c   Vingerling, Johannes R ^e   DeJong, Paulus T V M ^e   Witteman, Jacqueline C M ^e   Breteler, Monique M B ^e   Shaw, Jonathan ^f   Zimmet, Paul ^f   Wong, Tien Y ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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

^e ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f BAKER IDI HEART AND DIABETES INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERIOLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMBASE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHOTORECEPTOR; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

EID: 70349086163     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-151-6-200909150-00005     Document Type: Review

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