Risk factors for four-year incident visual impairment and blindness: The Los Angeles Latino eye study

Ophthalmology

Volumn 118, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1790-1797

  Yonekawa, Yoshihiro ^a   Varma, Rohit ^a   Choudhury, Farzana ^a   Torres, Mina ^a   Azen, Stanley P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; EYE DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETIREMENT; RISK FACTOR; UNEMPLOYMENT; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WIDOW;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLINDNESS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOS ANGELES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; VISION, LOW; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS;

EID: 80052447440     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: 15494713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2011.02.002     Document Type: Article

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