Five-year incidence of visual impairment and blindness in adult Chinese: The Beijing eye study

Ophthalmology

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1069-1075

  You, Qi Sheng ^a   Xu, Liang ^a   Yang, Hua ^a   Wang, Ya Xing ^a   Jonas, Jost B ^a,b  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CATARACT; CHINESE; DEGENERATIVE MYOPIA; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLINDNESS; CHINA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; VISION, LOW; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 79957977245     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: 15494713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2010.09.032     Document Type: Article

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