Retinal vascular tortuosity, blood pressure, and cardiovascular risk factors

Ophthalmology

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 812-818

  Cheung, Carol Yim Lui ^a   Zheng, Yingfeng ^a   Hsu, Wynne ^b   Lee, Mong Li ^b   Lau, Qiangfeng Peter ^b   Mitchell, Paul ^c   Wang, Jie Jin ^c,d   Klein, Ronald ^e   Wong, Tien Yin ^a,d,f  

^a SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^f NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTERIOLE; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EYE FUNDUS; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA ARTERY; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA VEIN; RETINAL VASCULAR TORTUOSITY; SINGAPORE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VEIN DIAMETER; VENULE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETINAL DISEASES; RETINAL VESSELS; RISK FACTORS; SINGAPORE; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 79955610405     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2010.08.045     Document Type: Article

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