Jan Henrik Terheyden1, David J Fink2, Karl Mercieca2

  • 1Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital Bonn, Venusberg-Campus 1, 53127, Bonn, NRW, Germany. jan.terheyden@ukbonn.de.

BMC public health
|February 8, 2024
PubMed
概括

公众对常见的与年龄相关的眼睛疾病 (如白内障和绿内障) 的了解不足. 需要进行教育干预,特别是对于那些不经常咨询医疗保健提供者的人来说,重点关注与年龄相关的黄斑变性 (AMD).

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