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Awareness and knowledge of glaucoma and associated factors among adults: a cross sectional study in Gondar Town, Northwest Ethiopia

BACKGROUND: Raising public awareness and knowledge about glaucoma is a key for early case identification and prevention of blindness. However, awareness and knowledge about glaucoma is unknown at community level, making provision of interventions difficult. This study was intended to assess the awar...

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Autores principales:	Alemu, Destaye Shiferaw, Gudeta, Alemayehu Desalegn, Gebreselassie, Kbrom Legesse
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2017
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5571668/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28836945 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12886-017-0542-z

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