Visual impairment and depressive symptoms in an older Australian cohort: Longitudinal findings from the Blue Mountains Eye Study

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 99, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1017-1021

  Hong, Thomas ^a   Mitchell, Paul ^a   Burlutsky, George ^a   Gopinath, Bamini ^a   Liew, Gerald ^a   Wang, Jie Jin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIAN; BLINDNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; SHORT FORM 36; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; AGED; AUSTRALIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; INCIDENCE; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT; PHYSIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VISION DISORDERS;

AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEW SOUTH WALES; ODDS RATIO; QUESTIONNAIRES; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS;

EID: 84938738101     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: 14682079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjophthalmol-2014-306308     Document Type: Article

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