Danish Rural Eye Study: Epidemiology of Adult Visual Impairment

Ophthalmic Epidemiology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 53-62

  Høeg, Tracy Beth ^a,b   Ellervik, Christina ^b,c   Buch, Helena ^d,e,f   La Cour, Morten ^b,d   Klemp, Kristian ^e   Kvetny, Jan ^g,h   Erngaard, Ditte ^a   Moldow, Birgitte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c NYKØBING FALSTER HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d Department of Ophthalmology   (Denmark)

^e University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

^f Copenhagen Private Hospital ^*  (Denmark)

^g NAESTVED HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Blindness; Denmark; population based; visual impairment

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A1C; VASCULOTROPIN INHIBITOR;

ADULT; ADULT DISEASE; AGE RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION; AGED; AMBLYOPIA; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CATARACT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DANISH CITIZEN; DEGENERATIVE MYOPIA; DENMARK; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DRY EYE; EYE EXAMINATION; EYE FUNDUS; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MACULAR EDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT HISTORY OF CATARACT SURGERY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLIFERATIVE DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; PSEUDOPHAKIA; REFRACTION ERROR; RURAL AREA; SELF REPORT; SUBURBAN POPULATION; VERY ELDERLY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WET MACULAR DEGENERATION; PATIENT; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VISION DISORDERS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RURAL POPULATION; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84958939238     PISSN: 09286586     EISSN: 17445086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09286586.2015.1066396     Document Type: Article

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