Central Australian ocular health study: Design and baseline description of participants

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 375-380

  Landers, John ^a   Henderson, Tim ^b   Craig, Jamie ^a  

^a FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^b ALICE SPRINGS HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aboriginal Australians; Epidemiology; Ocular disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; EYE EXAMINATION; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRESBYOPIA; PREVALENCE; STUDY DESIGN; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; EYE DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PRESBYOPIA; PREVALENCE; REFRACTION, OCULAR; RESEARCH DESIGN; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DISTRIBUTION; VISUAL ACUITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954645552     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2010.02255.x     Document Type: Article

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