Determinants of angle width in Chinese Singaporeans

Ophthalmology

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 278-282

  Foo, Li Lian ^a,b   Nongpiur, Monisha E ^b   Allen, John C ^a   Perera, Shamira A ^b   Friedman, David S ^c   He, Mingguang ^d   Cheng, Ching Yu ^a,b,e   Wong, Tien Yin ^b,e   Aung, Tin ^b,e  

^a DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A SCAN; ADULT; AGED; ANGLE WIDTH; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER ANGLE; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER AREA; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER DEPTH; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER VOLUME; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER WIDTH; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; CHINESE; CLOSED ANGLE GLAUCOMA; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EYE AXIS LENGTH; FEMALE; GONIOSCOPY; HUMAN; IRIS AREA; IRIS THICKNESS; LENS VAULT; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PARAMETERS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGAPORE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BIOMETRY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, ANGLE-CLOSURE; GONIOSCOPY; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; IRIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SINGAPORE; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TONOMETRY, OCULAR; TRABECULAR MESHWORK;

EID: 84856533763     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: 15494713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2011.07.049     Document Type: Article

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