Prevalence, risk factors, and visual features of undiagnosed glaucoma: The Singapore epidemiology of eye diseases study

JAMA Ophthalmology

Volumn 133, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 938-946

  Chua, Jacqueline ^a   Baskaran, Mani ^a,b,c   Ong, Peng Guan ^a   Zheng, Yingfeng ^a   Wong, Tien Yin ^a,b,c   Aung, Tin ^a,b   Cheng, Ching Yu ^a,b,c  

^a SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BLINDNESS; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CHINESE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNICITY; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAY (PEOPLE); MALE; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY GLAUCOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; VERY ELDERLY; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; GONIOSCOPY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MIDDLE AGED; OCULOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SINGAPORE; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; GONIOSCOPY; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SINGAPORE; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TONOMETRY, OCULAR; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD TESTS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 84939487291     PISSN: 21686165     EISSN: 21686173     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2015.1478     Document Type: Article

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