Retinal Microvascular Changes and the Risk of Developing Obesity: Population-Based Cohort Study

Microcirculation

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 655-662

  Shankar, Anoop ^a   Sabanayagam, Charumathi ^a   Klein, Barbara E K ^b   Klein, Ronald ^b  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Cohort study; Obesity; Retinal vessel diameters; Venular widening

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTERIOLE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; BODY MASS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; SMOKING; VENULE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHOLESTEROL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; RETINA; RISK FACTORS; VENULES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 81855210970     PISSN: 10739688     EISSN: 15498719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1549-8719.2011.00134.x     Document Type: Article

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