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Association Between Visual Acuity and Incident Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease: A Longitudinal Test of Mediators

Global Heart
Volume 20 (2025): Issue 1
By: Zijing Du,  Xiayin Zhang,  Gabriella Bulloch,  Feng Zhang,  Yu Huang,  Yaxin Wang,  Yingying Liang,  Guanrong Wu,  Zhuoting Zhu,  Xianwen Shang,  Yijun Hu,  Xiaohong Yang and  Honghua Yu  
Open Access
|Feb 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/gh.1406 | Journal eISSN: 2211-8179
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Language: English
Submitted on: Aug 1, 2024
Accepted on: Feb 11, 2025
Published on: Feb 24, 2025
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
Visual acuity,
atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease,
mediators,
older adults,
longitudinal

© 2025 Zijing Du, Xiayin Zhang, Gabriella Bulloch, Feng Zhang, Yu Huang, Yaxin Wang, Yingying Liang, Guanrong Wu, Zhuoting Zhu, Xianwen Shang, Yijun Hu, Xiaohong Yang, Honghua Yu, published by Ubiquity Press
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