Can your patients with heart failure see? The prevalence of visual impairment among adults with heart failure

J Gen Intern Med. 2018 May;33(5):605-607. doi: 10.1007/s11606-018-4366-1.

Authors

Madeline R Sterling¹, Deanna Jannat-Khah², Susan Vitale³, Monika M Safford²

Affiliations

¹ Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA. mrs9012@med.cornell.edu.
² Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA.
³ Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Applications, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: cross-sectional cohort study; epidemiology; heart failure; prevalence; vision; visual impairment.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Intramural
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Case-Control Studies
Comorbidity
Cross-Sectional Studies
Female
Heart Failure / epidemiology*
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Nutrition Surveys
Prevalence
United States
Vision Disorders / classification
Vision Disorders / epidemiology*

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