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Prevalence and causes of blindness and diabetic retinopathy in Southern Saudi Arabia
Saad Hajar, Ali Al Hazmi, Mustafa Wasli, Ahmed Mousa and Mansour Rabiu
Saudi Medical Journal January 2015, 36 (4) 449-455; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2015.4.10371
Saad Hajar
From the Department of Ophthalmology (Hajar), King Fahad Medical City, The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (Rabiu), EMR Regional Office, the Department of Ophthalmology (Mousa), King Saud University, Riyadh, and the Department of Ophthalmology (Hazmi, Wasli), King Fahad Central Hospital, Jazan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
MDAli Al Hazmi
From the Department of Ophthalmology (Hajar), King Fahad Medical City, The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (Rabiu), EMR Regional Office, the Department of Ophthalmology (Mousa), King Saud University, Riyadh, and the Department of Ophthalmology (Hazmi, Wasli), King Fahad Central Hospital, Jazan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
MDMustafa Wasli
From the Department of Ophthalmology (Hajar), King Fahad Medical City, The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (Rabiu), EMR Regional Office, the Department of Ophthalmology (Mousa), King Saud University, Riyadh, and the Department of Ophthalmology (Hazmi, Wasli), King Fahad Central Hospital, Jazan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
MDAhmed Mousa
From the Department of Ophthalmology (Hajar), King Fahad Medical City, The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (Rabiu), EMR Regional Office, the Department of Ophthalmology (Mousa), King Saud University, Riyadh, and the Department of Ophthalmology (Hazmi, Wasli), King Fahad Central Hospital, Jazan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
PhDMansour Rabiu
From the Department of Ophthalmology (Hajar), King Fahad Medical City, The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (Rabiu), EMR Regional Office, the Department of Ophthalmology (Mousa), King Saud University, Riyadh, and the Department of Ophthalmology (Hazmi, Wasli), King Fahad Central Hospital, Jazan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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- Received October 14, 2014
- Accepted February 4, 2015
- Published online April 1, 2015.
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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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- Saad Hajar, MD⇑,
- Ali Al Hazmi, MD,
- Mustafa Wasli, MD,
- Ahmed Mousa, PhD and
- Mansour Rabiu, MD, FMC (Opthal)
- From the Department of Ophthalmology (Hajar), King Fahad Medical City, The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (Rabiu), EMR Regional Office, the Department of Ophthalmology (Mousa), King Saud University, Riyadh, and the Department of Ophthalmology (Hazmi, Wasli), King Fahad Central Hospital, Jazan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Saad Hajar, Department of Ophthalmology, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Tel. +966 (11) 2889999 Ext. 1024. E-mail: shajar{at}kfmc.med.sa
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