Association of vitamin D deficiency and age-related macular degeneration in medicare beneficiaries

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 130, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1070-1071

  Day, Shelley ^a   Acquah, Kofi ^b   Platt, Alyssa ^b   Lee, Paul P ^c   Mruthyunjaya, Prithvi ^c   Sloan, Frank A ^b,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY EYE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INSURANCE COVERAGE; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MEDICARE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

EID: 84865592585     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archophthalmol.2012.439     Document Type: Letter

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