Effect of isometric exercise on choroidal blood flow in patients with age-related macular degeneration

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 94, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1629-1631

  Metelitsina, Tatyana I ^a   Grunwald, Juan E ^a   DuPont, Joan C ^a   Ying, Gui Shuang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VOLUME; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CHOROID VASCULARIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISOMETRIC EXERCISE; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION;

AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CHOROID; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 78649851010     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: 14682079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2009.176859     Document Type: Article

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