Prevalence of glaucoma in a rural northern China adult population: A population-based survey in Kailu County, Inner Mongolia

Ophthalmology

Volumn 118, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1982-1988

  Song, Wulian ^a   Shan, Li ^a   Cheng, Fang ^a   Fan, Pan ^a   Zhang, Lijuan ^b   Qu, Wei ^a   Zhang, Qiuju ^a   Yuan, Huiping ^a  

^a HARBIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Department of Ophthalmology   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; BLINDNESS; CHINA; CHINESE; CLOSED ANGLE GLAUCOMA; CORNEA THICKNESS; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; GONIOSCOPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONGOLIA; OCULOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PERIMETRY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SLIT LAMP;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLINDNESS; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, ANGLE-CLOSURE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; GONIOSCOPY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TONOMETRY, OCULAR; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD TESTS;

EID: 80053602577     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: 15494713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2011.02.050     Document Type: Article

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