Central corneal thickness and related factors in an elderly American Chinese population

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 412-420

  Wang, Dandan ^a,b   Singh, Kuldev ^c   Weinreb, Robert ^d   Kempen, John ^e   He, Mingguang ^b   Lin, Shan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

American Chinese; Central corneal thickness; Community based study; Risk factor

Indexed keywords

A SCAN; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; BIOMETRY; CENTRAL CORNEA THICKNESS; COMMUNITY SAMPLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CURVATURE; CORNEA THICKNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; GENEALOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMIGRANT; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; OCULOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PACHYMETRY; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ASIAN AMERICANS; AXIAL LENGTH, EYE; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CHINA; CORNEA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFRACTION, OCULAR; RISK FACTORS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 79960262177     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2010.02472.x     Document Type: Article

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