Age-related macular degeneration in very old individuals with family history
To access Publisher full text version of this article. Please click on the hyperlink in Additional Links field PURPOSE: To study age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in old and very old individuals with family history of AMD to find the proportion of those with early and advanced AMD. DESIGN: Retr...
Published in: | American Journal of Ophthalmology |
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Main Authors: | , , , , |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier Science
2007
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2336/12474 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajo.2006.11.057 |
Summary: | To access Publisher full text version of this article. Please click on the hyperlink in Additional Links field PURPOSE: To study age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in old and very old individuals with family history of AMD to find the proportion of those with early and advanced AMD. DESIGN: Retrospective cross-sectional cohort study of individuals with family history of AMD. METHODS: Database of 897 AMD patients ages 75 to 102 years with family history of AMD was compiled. Color fundus photographs were graded in a masked fashion according to the International Classification of AMD. RESULTS: With increasing age, a gradually larger proportion of participants had advanced AMD; 54% (469 of 863) of all those 75 years and older had advanced AMD, 64% (258 of 406) of all those 85 years and older, 74% (37 of 50) of all those 95 years and older, and all (eight of eight) 100 years and older had advanced AMD. CONCLUSIONS: All the centenarians in the present study had advanced AMD. |
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