Review of key findings from the Singapore Malay eye study (SiMES-1)

Singapore Medical Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 82-87

  Rosman, M ^a,b   Zheng, Y ^b   Lamoureux, E ^b,c   Saw, Sm ^a,b,d   Aung, T ^a,b,e   Tay, W T ^b   Wang, J J ^c,f   Mitchell, P ^f   Tai, E S ^g   Wong, T Y ^a,b,c,e  

^a SINGAPORE NATIONAL EYE CENTRE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d Occupational and Family Medicine   (United States)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^g Dept Medicine Endocrinol Diabet   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Eye diseases; Prevalence; Singaporean malays

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANISOMETROPIA; ASTIGMATISM; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CLOSED ANGLE GLAUCOMA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE; EYE DISEASE; EYE EXAMINATION; EYE INJURY; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERMETROPIA; MALE; MYOPIA; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPTOMETRY; PREVALENCE; PTERYGIUM; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA VEIN OCCLUSION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SECONDARY GLAUCOMA; SINGAPORE; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ASTIGMATISM; CATARACT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; EYE DISEASES; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA, ANGLE-CLOSURE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; HYPEROPIA; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; PREVALENCE; PTERYGIUM; RISK FACTORS; SINGAPORE;

EID: 84863147020     PISSN: 00375675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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