Authors
Sandra C Tomany, Jie Jin Wang, Redmer Van Leeuwen, Ronald Klein, Paul Mitchell, Johannes R Vingerling, Barbara EK Klein, Wayne Smith, Paulus TVM De Jong
Publication date
2004/7/1
Journal
Ophthalmology
Volume
111
Issue
7
Pages
1280-1287
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
OBJECTIVE
To examine risk factors for incident age-related macular degeneration (AMD) after combining data from 3 population-based cohort studies.
DESIGN
Population-based cohort study.
POPULATION
A population of 9523 adults (age range, 43–95 years at baseline) living in Australia, The Netherlands, and the United States who participated in a baseline examination and a follow-up examination on average 5 or 6 years later.
METHODS
Similar procedures were used at all study sites. Examinations included a standardized questionnaire, pupillary dilation, and stereoscopic color fundus photography. Fundus photographs were graded for lesions associated with AMD using the Wisconsin and International Age-Related Maculopathy Grading Systems. Senior investigators from each site adjudicated all photos graded as late AMD.
MAIN OUTCOMES MEASURE
Incidence of late AMD.
RESULTS
Among studies …
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