Prevalence of glaucoma in an urban west african population: The tema eye survey

JAMA Ophthalmology

Volumn 131, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 651-658

  Budenz, Donald L ^a,g   Barton, Keith ^b,c   Whiteside De Vos, Julia ^d   Schiffman, Joyce ^a   Bandi, Jagadeesh ^a   Nolan, Winifred ^b   Herndon, Leon ^e   Kim, Hanna ^a,f   Hay Smith, Graham ^b   Tielsch, James M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY EYE CENTER   (United States)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GHANA; GLAUCOMA; GONIOSCOPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPTIC DISK; PERIMETRY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TONOMETRY; URBAN AREA; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GHANA; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; GONIOSCOPY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TONOMETRY, OCULAR; URBAN POPULATION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD TESTS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 84877718517     PISSN: 21686165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2013.1686     Document Type: Article

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