The decline in visual acuity in elderly people with healthy eyes or eyes with early age-related maculopathy in two Scandinavian population samples

Acta Ophthalmologica

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 116-123

  Sjöstrand, Johan ^a   Laatikainen, Leila ^b,c   Hirvelä, Heli ^c   Popovic, Zoran ^a   Jonsson, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Ageing; Early age related maculopathy; Healthy eyes; Visual acuity

Indexed keywords

AGE RELATED MACULOPATHY; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FINLAND; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULOPATHY; SCANDINAVIA; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FINLAND; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MIDDLE AGED; SWEDEN; VISUAL ACUITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952227699     PISSN: 1755375X     EISSN: 17553768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-3768.2009.01653.x     Document Type: Article

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