Hyperopic refractive error and shorter axial length are associated with age-related macular degeneration: The Singapore Malay eye study

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 6247-6252

  Lavanya, Raghavan ^a   Kawasaki, Ryo ^b   Tay, Wan Ting ^a   Cheung, C M Cheung ^a   Mitchell, Paul ^c   Saw, Seang Mei ^a,d   Aung, Tin ^a,d   Wong, Tien Y ^a,b,d  

^a SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER DEPTH; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; CORNEA CURVATURE; DRUSEN; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMMETROPIA; ETHNICITY; EYE AXIS LENGTH; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; INTERFEROMETRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOPIA; OCULAR BIOMETRY; PARTIAL COHERENCE LASER INTERFEROMETRY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINAL PIGMENTARY ABNORMALITY; RISK FACTOR; SINGAPORE; SMOKING; SPHERICAL EQUIVALENT REFRACTION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTERIOR CHAMBER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AXIAL LENGTH, EYE; BIOMETRY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMMETROPIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPEROPIA; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; PREVALENCE; REFRACTION, OCULAR; RISK FACTORS; SINGAPORE;

EID: 79955946374     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-5229     Document Type: Article

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