Influence of refractive error and axial length on retinal vessel geometric characteristics

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 669-678

  Lim, Laurence Shen ^a   Cheung, Carol Yim Lui ^a   Lin, Xiaoyu ^b   Mitchell, Paul ^c   Wong, Tien Yin ^a,d,e   Mei Saw, Seang ^a,b  

^a SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTERIOLE; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATION; EMMETROPIA; EYE AXIS LENGTH; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; GENDER; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOPIA; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; SMOKING; VENULE; AGED; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SINGAPORE;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; ARTERIOLES; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AXIAL LENGTH, EYE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RETINAL VESSELS; SINGAPORE; VENULES;

EID: 79953270586     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-6184     Document Type: Article

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