Effects of age and blood pressure on the retinal arterial wall, analyzed using adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Arichika, Shigeta ^a   Uji, Akihito ^a   Ooto, Sotaro ^a   Muraoka, Yuki ^a   Yoshimura, Nagahisa ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; EYE FUNDUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LASER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTICS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA ARTERY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LASERS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINAL ARTERY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84937777256     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep12283     Document Type: Article

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