Causes and five-year incidence of blindness and visual impairment in urban southern China: The Liwan Eye Study

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 4117-4121

  Wang, Lanhua ^a   Huang, Wenyong ^a   He, Miao ^a   Zheng, Yingfeng ^a   Huang, Shengsong ^a   Liu, Bin ^a   Jin, Ling ^a   Congdon, Nathan G ^a,b   He, Mingguang ^a,c  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ORBIS INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Causes; China; Incidence; Urban; Visual impairment and blindness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CATARACT; CHINA; EDUCATION; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFRACTION ERROR; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RISK FACTOR; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CAUSES; CHINA; INCIDENCE; URBAN; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT AND BLINDNESS;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLINDNESS; CATARACT; CHINA; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; URBAN POPULATION; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 84879305278     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.13-11911     Document Type: Article

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