Prevalence and associations of steep cornea/keratoconus in greater beijing. the beijing eye study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Xu, Liang ^a   Wang, Ya Xing ^a   Guo, Yin ^a   You, Qi Sheng ^a   Jonas, Jost B ^a,b  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATININE; GLUCOSE; LIPID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY HEIGHT; CHINA; CHINESE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRY EYE; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; KERATOCONUS; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; REFLECTOMETRY; REFRACTION ERROR; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATOCONUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; REFRACTIVE ERRORS;

EID: 84863660286     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039313     Document Type: Article

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