Biomaterial Database

Prevalence of pseudoexfoliation of the lens in Finns, Lapps, Icelanders, Eskimos, and Russians. 1979

H Forsius

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007055	Iceland	A country in northern Europe, an island between the Greenland Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, northwest of the United Kingdom. The capital is Reykjavik.
D007905	Lens Diseases	Diseases involving the CRYSTALLINE LENS.	Disease, Lens,Diseases, Lens,Lens Disease
D008297	Male		Males
D008875	Middle Aged	An adult aged 45 - 64 years.	Middle Age
D004930	Inuit	Inuktitut-speakers generally associated with the northern polar region.	Aleuts,Eskimos,Inuits,Inuk,Inupiats,Kalaallits,Aleut,Eskimo,Inupiat,Kalaallit
D005260	Female		Females
D005387	Finland	A country in northern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and Gulf of Finland, between Sweden and Russia. The capital is Helsinki.	Aland Islands,Åland Islands
D005901	Glaucoma	An ocular disease, occurring in many forms, having as its primary characteristics an unstable or a sustained increase in the intraocular pressure which the eye cannot withstand without damage to its structure or impairment of its function. The consequences of the increased pressure may be manifested in a variety of symptoms, depending upon type and severity, such as excavation of the optic disk, hardness of the eyeball, corneal anesthesia, reduced visual acuity, seeing of colored halos around lights, disturbed dark adaptation, visual field defects, and headaches. (Dictionary of Visual Science, 4th ed)	Glaucomas
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000328	Adult	A person having attained full growth or maturity. Adults are of 19 through 44 years of age. For a person between 19 and 24 years of age, YOUNG ADULT is available.	Adults