The association between primary open-angle glaucoma and motor vehicle collisions

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 4177-4181

  Tanabe, Sachiko ^a,b   Yuki, Kenya ^a   Ozeki, Naoki ^a   Shiba, Daisuke ^a   Abe, Takayuki ^a   Kouyama, Keisuke ^a   Tsubota, Kazuo ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b The Tanabe Eye Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRIVING ABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPECTACLES; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; VISUAL FIELD;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EYEGLASSES; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 80051945556     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-6264     Document Type: Article

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