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:	Brandl, Caroline, Breinlich, Valentin, Stark, Klaus J., Enzinger, Sabrina, Aßenmacher, Matthias, Olden, Matthias, Grassmann, Felix, Graw, Jochen, Heier, Margit, Peters, Annette, Helbig, Horst, Küchenhoff, Helmut, Weber, Bernhard H. F., Heid, Iris M.
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science 2016
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5125704/

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