Differences in iris thickness among African Americans, caucasian Americans, hispanic Americans, Chinese Americans, and filipino-Americans

Journal of Glaucoma

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 673-678

  Lee, Roland Y ^a   Huang, Guofu ^a,b   Porco, Travis C ^a   Chen, Yi Chun ^a,c   He, Mingguang ^b   Lin, Shan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CATHAY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

anterior segment optical coherence tomography; iris thickness; narrow angle; open angle; primary angle closure glaucoma; Zhongshan Angle Assessment Program

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLOSED ANGLE GLAUCOMA; ETHNICITY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; IRIS THICKNESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLERA; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; CAUCASIAN; CHINA; ETHNOLOGY; GLAUCOMA, ANGLE-CLOSURE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; IRIS; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PHILIPPINES; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; VISUAL ACUITY;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; ASIAN AMERICANS; CHINA; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, ANGLE-CLOSURE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; IRIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PHILIPPINES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84890567729     PISSN: 10570829     EISSN: 1536481X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IJG.0b013e318264ba68     Document Type: Article

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