- ►shouxi.net PTVM de Jong - New England Journal of Medicine, 2006 - content.nejm.org The diagnosis of age-related macular degeneration rests on signs in the macula
(Figure 1), irrespective of visual acuity. 5 Drusen, derived from the German
word for geodes, cavities in rocks often lined by crystals, are the ... Cited by 126 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 8 versions
- ►puntodeencuentro.biz [PDF] RD Jager, WF Mieler, JW Miller - New England Journal of Medicine, 2008 - content.nejm.org Age-related macular degeneration is the leading cause of irreversible blindness
in people 50 years of age or older in the developed world. 1 , 2 More than 8
million Americans have age-related macular degeneration, and the overall ... Cited by 52 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 41 versions
C Bunce, R Wormald - BMC Public Health, 2006 - biomedcentral.com 13788 people were certified as blind, 19107 were certified as partially sighted.
The majority of certifications were in the older age groups. The most commonly
recorded main cause of certifications for both blindness (57.2 %) and ... Cited by 48 - Related articles - Cached - All 6 versions
- ►nih.gov J Tuo, B Ning, CM Bojanowski, ZN Lin, RJ … - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2006 - National Acad Sciences This study investigates age-related macular degeneration (AMD) genetic risk
factors through identification of a functional single-nucleotide polymorphism
(SNP) and its disease association. We chose ERCC6 because of its roles in ... Cited by 39 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 10 versions
- ►iovs.org RJ Ross, CM Bojanowski, JJ Wang, EY Chew, E … - Investigative ophthalmology & visual science, 2007 - ARVO PURPOSE. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a multifactorial blinding
disease in the elderly. LOC387715 harbors a single-nucleotide polymorphism that
has an association with AMD. This study was conducted to confirm the ... Cited by 30 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
M Thiagarajan, JR Evans, L Smeeth, RPL … - Archives of Ophthalmology, 2005 - Am Med Assoc Results Compared with those with 6/6 (or 20/20 Snellen) or better visual acuity,
the age- and sex-adjusted rate ratio for visually impaired people (binocular
visual acuity <6/18 or <20/60 Snellen) was 1.60 (95% confidence interval, ... Cited by 18 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
- ►nih.gov SS Dandekar, SA Jenkins, T Peto, AC Bird, … - British Journal of Ophthalmology, 2006 - bjo.bmj.com Methods: Prospective, observational, cross sectional study to analyse smoking
data on 711 subjects, of western European origin, in relation to the type of AMD
lesion present. Colour fundus photographs were graded according to a ... Cited by 6 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 8 versions
