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Refractive status in the Beaver Dam Eye Study.
PURPOSE To describe the prevalence of refractive errors in a population of adult Americans. METHODS From 1988 to 1990, 4926 adults who were 43 to 84 years of age and living in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin at the time of the 1987-1988 census were examined. Refractions were performed according to a modification of the Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study protocol. Included in this study were 453...
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Retinal vessels can be observed noninvasively and provide a window to microvascular systems elsewhere in the body. Generalized retinal arteriolar narrowing can represent structural changes resulting from persistent high blood pressure. However, data from recent studies also suggest that generalized retinal arteriolar narrowing might precede hypertension and contribute to its pathogenesis. To de...
متن کاملIncidence of visual impairment over a 20-year period: the Beaver Dam Eye Study.
PURPOSE To describe visual impairment (VI) over a 20-year period and its associations with age-related eye diseases and socioeconomic factors in the Beaver Dam Eye Study. DESIGN Population-based cohort study. PARTICIPANTS Four thousand nine hundred twenty-six persons 43 to 86 years of age participated in the baseline examination phase from 1988 through 1990, and 3721, 2962, 2375, and 1913 p...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Public Health
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0090-0036,1541-0048
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.85.3.414-a