Subfoveal choroidal thickness in relation to sex and axial length in 93 Danish university students

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 8438-8441

  Li, Xiao Qiang ^a,b   Larsen, Michael ^a,b,c   Munch, Inger Christine ^a,b  

^a GLOSTRUP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c JOHN F KENNEDY INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EYE AXIS LENGTH; EYE FUNDUS; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; INTERFEROMETRY; MALE; MANOMETRY; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; SUBFOVEAL CHOROIDAL THICKNESS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHOROID; DENMARK; HISTOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA FOVEA; SEX DIFFERENCE; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY;

ADULT; AXIAL LENGTH, EYE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHOROID; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENMARK; FEMALE; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; MALE; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; SEX FACTORS; STUDENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; UNIVERSITIES; VISUAL ACUITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862832876     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.11-8108     Document Type: Article

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