Higher risk of multiple falls among elderly women who lose visual acuity
- 1 May 2004
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Ophthalmology
- Vol. 111 (5) , 857-862
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ophtha.2003.09.033
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