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Risk of selected eye diseases in people admitted to hospital for hypertension or diabetes mellitus: record linkage studies
  1. Carrie Huisingh1,
  2. Gerald McGwin Jr1,2,3
  1. 1Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
  2. 2Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
  3. 3Department of Ophthalmology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr Gerald McGwin, Departments of Epidemiology and Ophthalmology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 609 Eye Foundation Hospital, 1720 University Boulevard, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA; mcgwin{at}uab.edu

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bjophthalmol-2012-302033

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    • Funding This letter was supported by grant number 5UL1 RR025777-04 from the NIH National Center for Research Resources.

    • Competing interests None.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

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