The Prevalence of Retinal Vein Occlusion: Pooled Data from Population Studies from the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia

Ophthalmology

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Rogers, Sophie ^a   McIntosh, Rachel L ^a   Cheung, Ning ^a   Lim, Lyndell ^a   Wang, Jie Jin ^a,b   Mitchell, Paul ^b   Kowalski, Jonathan W ^c   Nguyen, Hiep ^c   Wong, Tien Y ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c ALLERGAN INC   (United States)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIA; AUSTRALIA; ETHNICITY; EUROPE; EYE DISEASE; EYE FUNDUS; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RETINA VEIN OCCLUSION; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 75149172639     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2009.07.017     Document Type: Article

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