Risk factors for glaucoma: What do they really mean?

Australian Journal of Primary Health

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 233-239

  Worley, Anthea ^a   Grimmer Somers, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

detection; primary open angle glaucoma.

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

AFRICAN DESCENT; AGING; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; CHRONIC DRUG ADMINISTRATION; CLOSED ANGLE GLAUCOMA; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNICITY; EYE INJURY; FAMILY HISTORY; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE ABNORMALITY; MEDICAL HISTORY; MIGRAINE; MYOPIA; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PEER REVIEW; PERIPHERAL VASOSPASM; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SIDE EFFECT; SMOKING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VASOSPASM;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; AGING; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; EYE INJURIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; MYOPIA; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 80052493590     PISSN: 14487527     EISSN: 18367399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/PY10042     Document Type: Article

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