Prevalence and causes of visual impairment in diabetic patients in Tunisia, North Africa

Eye (Basingstoke)

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 986-991

  Kahloun, R ^a,b   Jelliti, B ^a,b   Zaouali, S ^a,b   Attia, S ^a,b   Ben Yahia, S ^a,b   Resnikoff, S ^c   Khairallah, M ^a,b  

^a FATTOUMA BOURGUIBA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONASTIR   (Tunisia)

^c International Health and Development   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY; BLINDNESS; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY MASS; CATARACT; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC MACULAR EDEMA; DIABETIC PATIENT; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DISEASE DURATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETIOLOGY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MACROALBUMINURIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULAR GLAUCOMA; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PATIENT; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PREVALENCE; RETINA DETACHMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TUNISIA; VERY ELDERLY; VISION, LOW; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLINDNESS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY CONSTITUTION; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TUNISIA; VISION, LOW; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS;

EID: 84906242405     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: 14765454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/eye.2014.131     Document Type: Article

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