Leading causes of certifiable visual loss in England and Wales during the year ending 31 March 2013

Eye (Basingstoke)

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 602-607

  Quartilho, A ^a   Simkiss, P ^b   Zekite, A ^a   Xing, W ^a   Wormald, R ^a,c   Bunce, C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Royal National Institute of Blind People   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGE RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION; ARTICLE; CERTIFICATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; GENETIC DISORDER; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; REGISTRATION; UNITED KINGDOM; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; AGED; BLINDNESS; COMPLICATION; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DISABILITY; ENGLAND; EYE DISEASES; FEMALE; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; OPTIC ATROPHY; PREVALENCE; REGISTER; RETINAL DISEASES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; VISION, LOW; WALES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLINDNESS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DISABILITY EVALUATION; ENGLAND; EYE DISEASES; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; OPTIC ATROPHY; PREVALENCE; REGISTRIES; RETINAL DISEASES; VISION, LOW; WALES;

EID: 84963787597     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: 14765454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/eye.2015.288     Document Type: Article

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