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Six-Year Incidence of Blindness and Visual Impairment in Kenya: The Nakuru Eye Disease Cohort Study
PURPOSE: To describe the cumulative 6-year incidence of visual impairment (VI) and blindness in an adult Kenyan population. The Nakuru Posterior Segment Eye Disease Study is a population-based sample of 4414 participants aged ≥50 years, enrolled in 2007–2008. Of these, 2170 (50%) were reexamined in...
Autores principales: | Bastawrous, Andrew, Mathenge, Wanjiku, Wing, Kevin, Rono, Hillary, Gichangi, Michael, Weiss, Helen A., Macleod, David, Foster, Allen, Burton, Matthew J., Kuper, Hannah |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5102568/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27820953 http://dx.doi.org/10.1167/iovs.16-19835 |
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