Interrelationships between nutritional status, socioeconomic factors, and lifestyle in Indian cataract patients

Nutrition

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 40-45

  Tarwadi, Kirtan Vilas ^a   Agte, Vaishali Vilas ^a  

^a AGHARKAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Etiology of cataract; Lifestyle; Nutritional status; Socioeconomic class

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FAMILY HISTORY; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; FRUIT; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LENS; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAT; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SLIT LAMP; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUN EXPOSURE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TEA; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; VEGETABLE; WAIST HIP RATIO;

AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ANTIOXIDANTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CATARACT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIET; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EYE PROTEINS; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCOME; INDIA; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; SUNLIGHT; URBAN POPULATION;

ANIMALIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 78649965501     PISSN: 08999007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nut.2009.11.015     Document Type: Article

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