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

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Brandl, Caroline, Breinlich, Valentin Andreas, 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. und Heid, Iris M. (2016) Features of Age-Related Macular Degeneration in the General Adults and Their Dependency on Age, Sex, and Smoking: Results from the German KORA Study. PLoS ONE 11 (11), e0167181.

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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 prevalence of early AMD features and late AMD in a general adult population by acquiring color fundus ...

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