Prevalence and causes of visual impairment and blindness in an urban Indian population: The Singapore Indian eye study

Ophthalmology

Volumn 118, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1798-1804

  Zheng, Yingfeng ^a,b   Lavanya, Raghavan ^a   Wu, Renyi ^a   Wong, Wan Ling ^a   Wang, Jie Jin ^c,d   Mitchell, Paul ^d   Cheung, Ning ^c   Cajucom Uy, Howard ^a   Lamoureux, Ecosse ^a,c   Aung, Tin ^a,e   Saw, Seang Mei ^a,e   Wong, Tien Y ^a,c,e  

^a SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CATARACT; CORNEA OPACITY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA MACULOPATHY; URBAN POPULATION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BLINDNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EYE DISEASES; EYEGLASSES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SINGAPORE; URBAN POPULATION; VISION TESTS; VISION, LOW; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS;

EID: 80052455702     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: 15494713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2011.02.014     Document Type: Article

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