Sociodemographic, lifestyle, and medical risk factors for visual impairment in an urban asian population: The Singapore Malay eye study

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 127, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1640-1647

  Chong, Elaine W ^a   Lamoureux, Ecosse L ^a,b   Jenkins, Mark A ^a   Aung, Tin ^b,c   Saw, Seang Mei ^b,c,d   Wong, Tien Yin ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERVIEW; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; SENESCENCE; SINGAPORE; SOCIAL STATUS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; UNEMPLOYMENT; URBAN POPULATION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WIDOW; BLINDNESS; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BLINDNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SINGAPORE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; VISION, LOW; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS;

EID: 73349135367     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archophthalmol.2009.298     Document Type: Article

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