The African descent and glaucoma evaluation study (ADAGES): Design and baseline data

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 127, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1136-1145

  Sample, Pamela A ^a   Girkin, Christopher A ^b   Zangwill, Linda M ^a   Jain, Sonia ^a   Racette, Lyne ^a   Becerra, Lida M ^a   Weinreb, Robert N ^a   Medeiros, Felipe A ^a   Wilson, M Roy ^c   De León Ortega, Julio ^b   Tello, Celso ^d   Bowd, Christopher ^a   Liebmann, Jeffrey M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d NEW YORK EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HEART DISEASE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OPTIC NERVE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PERIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RISK FACTOR; VISION;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; CORNEA; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; PERIMETRY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 70349233840     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archophthalmol.2009.187     Document Type: Article

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