Features of Age-Related Macular Degeneration in the General Adults and Their Dependency on Age, Sex, and Smoking: Results from the German KORA Study.

Features of Age-Related Macular Degeneration in the General Adults and Their Dependency on Age, Sex, and Smoking: Results from the German KORA Study.

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a vision impairing disease of the central retina characterized by early and late forms in individuals older than 50 years of age. However, there is little knowledge to what extent also younger adults are affected. We have thus set out to estimate the prevale...

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Main Authors: Caroline Brandl, Valentin Breinlich, Klaus J Stark, Sabrina Enzinger, Matthias Aßenmacher, Matthias Olden, Felix Grassmann, Jochen Graw, Margit Heier, Annette Peters, Horst Helbig, Helmut Küchenhoff, Bernhard H F Weber, Iris M Heid
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5125704?pdf=render

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